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.
GRUELING
arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
(adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; “worked their arduous way up the mining valley”; “a grueling campaign”; “hard labor”; “heavy work”; “heavy going”; “spent many laborious hours on the project”; “set a punishing pace”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
grueling (comparative more grueling, superlative most grueling)
Alternative spelling of gruelling
Noun
grueling (plural gruelings)
Alternative spelling of gruelling
Anagrams
• regluing
Source: Wiktionary
GRUEL
Gru"el, n. Etym: [OF. gruel, F. gruau; of German origin; cf. OHG. gruzzi groats, G. grĂĽtze, As. grut. See Grout.]
Definition: A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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