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.
WARDSHIPS
Noun
wardships
plural of wardship
Anagrams
• shipwards
Source: Wiktionary
WARDSHIP
Ward"ship, n.
1. The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship. Wardship is incident to tenure in socage. Blackstone.
2. The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage. It was the wisest act . . . in my wardship. B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PUNGENCY
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