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.
TRADUCEMENT
defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job
(noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone’s words or actions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
traducement (countable and uncountable, plural traducements)
The act of traducing; slander, calumny.
Source: Wiktionary
Tra*duce"ment, n.
Definition: The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. [R.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PATH
(noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves; “the hurricane demolished houses in its path”; “the track of an animal”; “the course of the river”
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