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.
UPTHRUST
upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust
(noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
upthrust (countable and uncountable, plural upthrusts)
An upward thrust.
(nautical) Buoyancy.
(geology) An upward movement of part of the Earth's crust.
Verb
upthrust (third-person singular simple present upthrusts, present participle upthrusting, simple past and past participle upthrusted)
(transitive) To thrust something upwards.
(intransitive) To be thrust upwards.
Anagrams
• thruputs
Source: Wiktionary
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