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.
BASTILE
Noun
bastile (plural bastiles)
Obsolete form of bastille.
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• Stabile, ableist, albites, astilbe, bestial, libates, stabile
Source: Wiktionary
Bas*tile" Bas*tille", n. Etym: [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. b.]
1. (Feud. Fort.)
Definition: A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.
2. "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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