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.
GREATENED
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greatened
simple past tense and past participle of greaten
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GREATEN
Great"en, v. t.
Definition: To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.] A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king]. Ken.
Great"en, v. i.
Definition: To become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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