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.
censorial
(adjective) belonging or relating to a censor or a censor’s functions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
censorial (comparative more censorial, superlative most censorial)
relating to a censor
• Creolians, Locarnise, acroleins, carolines, iron scale, locarnise, loniceras
Source: Wiktionary
Cen*so"ri*al, a.
1. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. Junius.
2. Full of censure; censorious. The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 June 2025
(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”
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.