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.
SUCKEN
Etymology
Noun
sucken (plural suckens)
(obsolete) The duty of a tenant to bring corn etc to a particular mill to be ground.
(obsolete) The land astricted in this way.
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• Kunces
Source: Wiktionary
Suck"en, n. Etym: [See Socome, Soc.] (Scots Law)
Definition: The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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