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.
TRUANT
truant, awol
(adjective) absent without permission; “truant schoolboys”; “the soldier was AWOL for almost a week”
nonattender, no-show, truant
(noun) someone who shirks duty
truant, hooky player
(noun) one who is absent from school without permission
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
truant (not comparable)
Absent without permission, especially from school.
Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
Noun
truant (plural truants)
One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
Verb
truant (third-person singular simple present truants, present participle truanting, simple past and past participle truanted)
(intransitive) To play truant.
(transitive) To idle away; to waste.
To idle away time.
Anagrams
• traunt
Source: Wiktionary
Tru"ant, n. Etym: [F. truand, OF. truant, a vagrant, beggar; of Celtic origin; cf. W. tru, truan, wretched, miserable, truan a wretch, Ir. trogha miserable, Gael. truaghan a poor, distressed, or wretched creature, truagh wretched.]
Definition: One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Dryden. I have a truant been to chivalry. Shak. To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave. Sir T. Browne
Tru"ant, a.
Definition: Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy. While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on Olympus' side. Trumbull.
Tru"ant, v. i. Etym: [Cf. F. truander.]
Definition: To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant. Shak. By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge. Lowell.
Tru"ant, v. t.
Definition: To idle away; to waste. [R.] I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. Ford.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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