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.
DOLOR
dolor, dolour
(noun) (poetry) painful grief
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dolor (countable and uncountable, plural dolors)
(literary) Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish.
A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
Synonyms
• (unit of pain): dol
Antonyms
• (unit of pain): hedon
Anagrams
• drool, loord
Source: Wiktionary
Do"lor, n. Etym: [OE. dolor, dolur, dolour, F. douleur, L. dolor, fr. dolere. See 1st Dole.]
Definition: Pain; grief; distress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] [Poetic] Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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