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.
FRIT
Etymology 1
Noun
frit (countable and uncountable, plural frits)
A fused mixture of materials used to make glass.
(archaeology) A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age)
Verb
frit (third-person singular simple present frits, present participle fritting, simple past and past participle fritted)
To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture
To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
Etymology 2
Adjective
frit (comparative more frit, superlative most frit)
(UK, regional) Frightened.
Etymology 3
Noun
frit (plural frits)
A frit fly.
Anagrams
• FTIR, rift
Source: Wiktionary
Frit, n. Etym: [F. fritte, fr. frit fried, p. p. of frire to fry. See Far, v. t.]
1. (Glass Making)
Definition: The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients. Ure.
2. (Ceramics)
Definition: The material for glaze of pottery. Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.
Frit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fritted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fritting.]
Definition: To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. Ure.
Frit, v. t.
Definition: To fritter; -- with away. [R.] Ld. Lytton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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