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.
AMORIST
amorist
(noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
amorist (plural amorists)
Someone who is in love.
Someone who writes about love.
Anagrams
• Artsiom, moritas
Source: Wiktionary
Am"o*rist, n. Etym: [L. armor love. See Amorous.]
Definition: A lover; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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