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.
REREWARD
Etymology
Noun
rereward (plural rerewards)
Obsolete spelling of rearward (in the archaic and historical military sense of rearguard and the obsolete sense of haunches, buttocks). [Middle English through the 19th century]
Anagrams
• redrawer, rewarder
Source: Wiktionary
Rere"ward` (rr"wrd`), n. Etym: [See Rearward.]
Definition: The rear quard of an army. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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