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.
STEEMING
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steeming
present participle of steem
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STEEM
Steem, n. & v.
Definition: See Esteem. [Obs.] Spenser.
Steem, n. & v.
Definition: See 1st and 2nd Stem. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Stem, Steem, v. i.
Definition: To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.
Stem, Steem, n.
Definition: A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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