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.
CAPTIONING
Verb
captioning
present participle of caption
Anagrams
• pactioning
Source: Wiktionary
CAPTION
Cap"tion, n. Etym: [L. captio, fr. caper to take. In senses 3 and 4, perhaps confounded in meaning with L. caput a head. See Capacious.]
1. A caviling; a sophism. [Obs.] This doctrine is for caption and contradiction. Bacon.
2. The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. [R.] Bouvier.
3. (Law)
Definition: That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it taken, found, or executed. Bouvier. Wharton.
4. The heading of a chapter, section, or page. [U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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