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.
UNDERGO
undergo
(verb) pass through; “The chemical undergoes a sudden change”; “The fluid undergoes shear”; “undergo a strange sensation”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
undergo (third-person singular simple present undergoes, present participle undergoing, simple past underwent, past participle undergone)
(transitive, obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.
(transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
(transitive) To suffer or endure; bear with.
Synonyms
• (to go or move under)
• (to experience): go through, take, undercome
• (to suffer or endure): brook, put up with; See also tolerate
Anagrams
• go under, grounde, guerdon, ungored
Source: Wiktionary
Un`der*go", v. t. [imp. Underwent; p. p. Undergone; p. pr. & vb. n. Undergoing.] Etym: [AS. undergan. See Under, and Go.]
1. To go or move below or under. [Obs.]
2. To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion. Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.
3. To be the bearer of; to possess. [Obs.] Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo. Shak.
4. To undertake; to engage in; to hazard. [Obs.] I have moved already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an enterprise. Shak.
5. To be subject or amenable to; to underlie. [Obs.] Claudio undergoes my challenge. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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