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.
ABBREVIATING
Verb
abbreviating
present participle of abbreviate
Source: Wiktionary
ABBREVIATE
Ab*bre"vi*ate, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Abbreviated; p.pr. & vb.n. Abbreviating.] Etym: [L. abbreviatus, p.p. of abbreviare; ad + breviare to shorten, fr. brevis short. See Abridge.]
1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.
2. (Math.)
Definition: To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
Ab*bre"vi*ate, a. Etym: [L. abbreviatus, p.p.]
1. Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [R.] "The abbreviate form." Earle.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
Ab*bre"vi*ate, n.
Definition: An abridgment. [Obs.] Elyot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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