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.
CONDOLED
Verb
condoled
simple past tense and past participle of condole
Source: Wiktionary
CONDOLE
Con*dole", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Condoled; p. pr. & vb. n. Condoling.] Etym: [L. condolere; con- + dolere to feel pain, grieve. See Doleful.]
Definition: To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.
Con*dole", v. t.
Definition: To lament or grieve over. [R.] I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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