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.
INSTRESS
Noun
instress (plural instresses)
In the philosophy of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the apprehension or realization of the inscape, or distinctive design, of an object.
Verb
instress (third-person singular simple present instresses, present participle instressing, simple past and past participle instressed)
To apprehend or realize the inscape, or distinctive design, of an object.
Anagrams
• sestrins, sistrens
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