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.
DENARIES
Noun
denaries
plural of denary
Anagrams
• areneids, arsedine, arsenide, near side, near-side, nearside
Source: Wiktionary
DENARY
Den"a*ry, a. Etym: [L. denarius. See 2d Denier.]
Definition: Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.
Den"a*ry, n.
1. The number ten; a division into ten.
2. A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius. Udall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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