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.
BREVIATE
Etymology
Noun
breviate (plural breviates)
A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
A lawyer's brief.
Anagrams
• evibrate
Source: Wiktionary
Bre"vi*ate, n. Etym: [L. breviatus, p.p. of breviare to shorten, brevis short.]
1. A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.
2. A lawyer's brief. [R.] Hudibras.
Bre"vi*ate, v. t.
Definition: To abbreviate. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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