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.
CORRESPONDING
corresponding
(adjective) accompanying; “all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities”
comparable, corresponding, like
(adjective) conforming in every respect; “boxes with corresponding dimensions”; “the like period of the preceding year”
corresponding
(adjective) similar especially in position or purpose; “a number of corresponding diagonal points”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
corresponding
present participle of correspond
Noun
corresponding (plural correspondings)
A correspondence; the situation where things correspond or match.
Adjective
corresponding (comparative more corresponding, superlative most corresponding)
that have a similar relationship
Source: Wiktionary
Cor`re*spond"ing, a.
1. Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.
2. Carrying on intercourse by letters. Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management.
CORRESPOND
Cor`re*spond" (kr`r-spnd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding.] Etym: [Pref. cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre.]
1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
2. To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to. Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther. Locke.
3. To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with. After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macualay.
Syn.
– To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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