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.
ALTERED
altered
(adjective) changed in form or character without becoming something else; “the altered policy promised success”; “following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization”; “he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing”- Charles Dickens
adapted, altered
(adjective) changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; “seeds precisely adapted to the area”; “instructions altered to suit the children’s different ages”
altered, neutered
(adjective) having testicles or ovaries removed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
altered
simple past tense and past participle of alter
Noun
altered (plural altereds)
A kind of car in drag racing, usually with a partial body situated behind the exposed engine.
Adjective
altered (not comparable)
Having been changed from an original form.
(of an animal, usually a pet) Neutered; having had testicles or uterus and ovaries removed to prevent procreation.
Anagrams
• Aldrete, alerted, redealt, related, treadle
Source: Wiktionary
ALTER
Al"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Altered; p. pr. & vb. n. Altering.] Etym: [F. altérer, LL. alterare, fr. L. alter other, alius other. Cf. Else, Other.]
1. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.
2. To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.] Milton.
3. To geld. [Colloq.]
Syn.
– Change, Alter. Change is generic and the stronger term. It may express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a partial change, or a change in form or details without destroying identity.
Al"ter, v. i.
Definition: To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. "The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." Dan. vi. 8.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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