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
censorial
(adjective) belonging or relating to a censor or a censor’s functions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
censorial (comparative more censorial, superlative most censorial)
relating to a censor
Anagrams
• 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
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