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.
REFUNDED
Verb
refunded
simple past tense and past participle of refund
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Source: Wiktionary
REFUND
Re*fund" (r*fnd"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + fund.]
Definition: To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
Re*fund" (r*fnd"), v. t. Etym: [L. refundere; pref. re- re- + fundere to pour: cf. F. refondre, refonder. See Fuse to melt, and cf. Refound to cast again, 1st Refuse.]
1. To pour back. [R. & Obs.] Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object. Ray.
2. To give back; to repay; to restore. A governor, that had pillaged the people, was . . . sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. L'Estrange.
3. To supply again with funds; to reimburse. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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