INCONSUMABLY

Etymology

Adverb

inconsumably (comparative more inconsumably, superlative most inconsumably)

Such that it cannot be consumed or used up; inexhaustibly.

All flowers in field or forest which unclose
Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day,
Swinging their censers in the element,
With orient incense lit by the new ray
Burned slow and inconsumably, and sent
Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air […]

Source: Wiktionary


INCONSUMABLE

In`con*sum"a*ble, a.

Definition: Not consumable; incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent. Paley.

– In`con*sum"a*bly, adv.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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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.

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