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.
GLACIATE
glaciate
(verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers
glaciate
(verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier; “the entire area was glaciated”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
glaciate (third-person singular simple present glaciates, present participle glaciating, simple past and past participle glaciated)
To cover with ice or a glacier
To erode with a glacier
To freeze
Anagrams
• caligate
Source: Wiktionary
Gla"ci*ate, v. i. Etym: [L. glaciatus, p. p. of glaciare to freeze, fr. glacies ice.]
Definition: To turn to ice.
Gla"ci*ate, v. t.
1. To convert into, or cover with, ice.
2. (Geol.)
Definition: To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc. Glaciated rocks, rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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