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.
SEAZE
Verb
seaze (third-person singular simple present seazes, present participle seazing, simple past and past participle seazed)
Obsolete form of seize.
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