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.
DELVING
Verb
delving
present participle of delve
Noun
delving (countable and uncountable, plural delvings)
The act of one who delves.
Alternative form of dilving
Source: Wiktionary
DELVE
Delve v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delved; p. pr. & vb. n. Delving.] Etym: [AS. delfan to dig; akin to OS. bidelban to bury, D. delven to dig, MHG. telben, and possibly to E. dale. Cf. Delf a mine.]
1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden.
2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.
Delve, v. i.
Definition: To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).
Delve, n. Etym: [See Delve, v. t., and cf. Delf a mine.]
Definition: A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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