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.
SCOURSE
Verb
scourse (third-person singular simple present scourses, present participle scoursing, simple past and past participle scoursed)
Obsolete form of scorse.
Anagrams
• Cousers, Croesus, Crouses, CrĹ“sus, Scouser, courses, rescous, scouser, sources, sucrose
Source: Wiktionary
Scourse, v. t.
Definition: See Scorse. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OWNER
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