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.
SUMMITS
Noun
summits
plural of summit
Anagrams
• mutisms, summist, tsimmus
Source: Wiktionary
SUMMIT
Sum"mit, n. Etym: [F. sommet, dim. of OF. som, sum, top, from L. summum, from summus highest. See Sum, n.]
1. The top; the highest point. Fixed on the summit of the highest mount. Shak.
2. The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated. Summit level, the highest level of a canal, a railroad, or the like, in surmounting an ascent.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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