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.
SKIPPED
SKIP
jump, pass over, skip, skip over
(verb) bypass; “He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible”
skim, skip, skitter
(verb) cause to skip over a surface; “Skip a stone across the pond”
skip, bound off
(verb) bound off one point after another
hop, skip, hop-skip
(verb) jump lightly
decamp, skip, vamoose
(verb) leave suddenly; “She persuaded him to decamp”; “skip town”
cut, skip
(verb) intentionally fail to attend; “cut class”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
skipped
simple past tense and past participle of skip
Source: Wiktionary
SKIP
Skip, n. Etym: [See Skep.]
1. A basket. See Skep. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
3. (Mining)
Definition: An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
4. (Sugar Manuf.)
Definition: A charge of sirup in the pans.
5. A beehive; a skep.
Skip, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Skipping.] Etym: [OE. skippen, of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. skopa run, skoppa to spin like a top, OSw. & dial. Sw. skimmpa to run, skimpa, skompa, to hop, skip; or Ir. sgiob to snatch, Gael. sgiab to start or move suddenly, to snatch, W. ysgipio to snatch.]
1. To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne.
2. Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
Skip, v. t.
1. To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
2. To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson. They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters. Bp. Burnet.
3. To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone. [Colloq.]
Skip, n.
1. A light leap or bound.
2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
3. (Mus.)
Definition: A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. Busby. Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] Swift.
– Skip mackerel. (Zoöl.) See Bluefish, 1.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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