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.
AYLE
Ayle, n. Etym: [OE. ayel, aiel, OF. aiol, aiel, F. aĂŻeul, a dim. of L. avus grandfather.]
Definition: A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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