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.
ENOUNCED
Verb
enounced
simple past tense and past participle of enounce
Anagrams
• denounce, unencode
Source: Wiktionary
ENOUNCE
E*nounce", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Enouncing.] Etym: [F. Ă©noncer, L. enuntiare; e out + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuntius messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Enunciate.]
1. To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton.
2. To utter; to articulate. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently. A. M. Bell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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