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.
ENLIT
Verb
enlit
simple past tense and past participle of enlight
Anagrams
• ELINT, Intel, inlet, intel, leint, let in
Source: Wiktionary
ENLIGHT
En*light", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + light. Cf. Enlighten.]
Definition: To illumine; to enlighten. [R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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