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.
SHIPMEN
Noun
shipmen
plural of shipman
Source: Wiktionary
SHIPMAN
Ship"man, n.; pl. Shipmen (.
Definition: A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] Chaucer. R. Browning. About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. Acts xxvii. 27. Shipman's card, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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