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.
SUBDUCT
Etymology
Verb
subduct (third-person singular simple present subducts, present participle subducting, simple past and past participle subducted)
(transitive) To push under or below.
(intransitive) To move downwards underneath something.
(rare) To remove; to deduct; to take away; to disregard.
Anagrams
• bus duct
Source: Wiktionary
Sub*duce", Sub*duct", v. t. Etym: [L. subducere, subductum; sub under + ducere to lead, to draw. See Duke, and cf. Subdue.]
1. To withdraw; to take away. Milton.
2. To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct. If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten. Sir M. Hale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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