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.
INTERLARDS
Verb
interlards
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlard
Source: Wiktionary
INTERLARD
In`ter*lard", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interlarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Interlarding.] Etym: [F. entrelarder. See Inter-, and Lard.]
1. To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean. [Obs.] Whose grain doth rise in flakes, with fatness interlarded. Drayton.
2. Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions. The English laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular laws of their own. Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. J. Philips.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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