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.
UNDERKEEP
Etymology
Verb
underkeep (third-person singular simple present underkeeps, present participle underkeeping, simple past and past participle underkept)
(transitive) To keep under or in subjection; subdue; suppress.
(transitive) To keep or maintain inadequately or below standard.
Noun
underkeep (plural underkeeps)
An underground reserve.
A keep or storage space located beneath the foundation of a structure; cellar.
Any storage space or reservoir placed below another object.
An underkeeper, guardian, or custodian.
Anagrams
• keep under
Source: Wiktionary
Un`der*keep", v. t.
Definition: To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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