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.
FONT
font, fount, typeface, face, case
(noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Font
(informal) The town of Fontainebleau
Etymology 1
Noun
font (plural fonts)
A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism
A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
(figuratively) spring, source, fountain
Etymology 2
Noun
font (plural fonts)
(typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g, Helvetica), style (e.g, italic), and weight (e.g, bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
(computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
Verb
font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)
(television, colloquial, transitive) To overlay (text) on the picture.
Etymology 3
Noun
font (plural fonts)
(figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
Source: Wiktionary
Font, n. Etym: [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.] (Print.)
Definition: A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
Font, n. Etym: [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.]
1. A fountain; a spring; a source. Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young.
2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. That name was given me at the font. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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