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.
TURBITH
Etymology
Noun
turbith (uncountable)
A type of purgative drug made from the root of a type of morning glory plant (Operculina turpethum); or the plant itself.
turbith, agarick, mirabolanes, hermodactils from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […].
Source: Wiktionary
Tur"bith, n. Etym: [F., fr. Per. See Turpeth.]
Definition: See Turpeth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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