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.
FORESHORTENED
Verb
foreshortened
simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten
Source: Wiktionary
FORESHORTEN
Fore*short"en, v. t.
1. (Fine Art)
Definition: To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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