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.
ATTIRED
appareled, attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed
(adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; “the elegantly attired gentleman”; “neatly dressed workers”; “monks garbed in hooded robes”; “went about oddly garmented”; “professors robed in crimson”; “tuxedo-attired gentlemen”; “crimson-robed Harvard professors”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
attired
simple past tense and past participle of attire
Adjective
attired (not comparable)
(heraldry) Said of the horns of a stag when they are of a different tincture to its head.
Anagrams
• detrita, eat dirt
Source: Wiktionary
At*tired", p. p. (Her.)
Definition: Provided with antlers, as a stag.
ATTIRE
At*tire", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attired; p. pr. & vb. n. Attiring.] Etym: [OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; Ă (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziari, G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress.]
Definition: To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.
At*tire", n.
1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. Earth in her rich attire. Milton. I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. Shak. Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire Jer. ii. 32.
2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THOUGHTFULLY
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