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.
SCAFFOLD
scaffold
(noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
scaffold
(noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
scaffold
(verb) provide with a scaffold for support; “scaffold the building before painting it”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
scaffold (plural scaffolds)
A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
(metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
(sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
Verb
scaffold (third-person singular simple present scaffolds, present participle scaffolding, simple past and past participle scaffolded)
(transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
(transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
(transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
Source: Wiktionary
Scaf"fold, n. Etym: [OF. eschafault, eschafaut, escafaut, escadafaut, F. Ă©chafaud; probably oiginally the same word as E. & F. catafalque, It. catafafalco. See Catafalque.]
1. A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc. Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Shak.
2. Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold. That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation. Sir P. Sidney.
3. (Metal.)
Definition: An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyères in a blast furnace.
Scaf"fold, v. t.
Definition: To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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