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.
TURMOIL
agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo
(noun) disturbance usually in protest
tumult, turmoil
(noun) violent agitation
convulsion, turmoil, upheaval
(noun) a violent disturbance; “the convulsions of the stock market”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
turmoil (usually uncountable, plural turmoils)
A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.
Synonyms
• chaos, disorder
Verb
turmoil (third-person singular simple present turmoils, present participle turmoiling, simple past and past participle turmoiled)
(obsolete, intransitive) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
(obsolete, transitive) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
Source: Wiktionary
Tur"moil, n. Etym: [Of uncertain origin; perhaps fr. OF. tremouille the hopper of a mill, trembler to tremble (cf. E. tremble); influenced by E. turn and moil.]
Definition: Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion. And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium. Shak.
Tur*moil", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Turmoiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Turmoiling.]
Definition: To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry. [Obs.] It is her fatal misfortune . . . to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction. Spenser.
Tur*moil", v. i.
Definition: To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion. [Obs.] Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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