Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
RAZEE
Etymology
Noun
razee (plural razees)
(nautical) An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
Verb
razee (third-person singular simple present razees, present participle razeeing, simple past and past participle razeed)
(nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
(figurative) To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
Anagrams
• zeera
Source: Wiktionary
Ra*zee", n. Etym: [F. vaisseau rasé, fr. raser to rase, to cut down ships. See Raze, v. t., Rase, v. t.] (Naut.)
Definition: An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten.
Ra*zee", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Razeed; p. pr. & vb. n. Razeeing.]
Definition: To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or glass, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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