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.
AGGRADE
aggrade
(verb) build up to a level by depositing sediment
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
aggrade (third-person singular simple present aggrades, present participle aggrading, simple past and past participle aggraded)
(transitive, geology) to raise the level of a river bed by the deposition of sediment
Anagrams
• garaged
Source: Wiktionary
Ag*grade", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrading.] (Phys. Geog.)
Definition: To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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