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.
MANIFOLDED
Etymology
Adjective
manifolded (comparative more manifolded, superlative most manifolded)
(engineering, not comparable) Arranged in a manifold.
(obsolete) Having many folds, layers, or plates.
Source: Wiktionary
Man"i*fold`ed, a.
Definition: Having many folds, layers, or plates; as, a manifolded shield. [Obs.]
MANIFOLD
Man"i*fold, a. Etym: [AS. manigfeald. See Many, and Fold.]
1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12.
2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number. "The manifold wisdom of God." Eph. iii. 10. "The manifold grace of God." 1 Pet. iv. 10. Manifold writing, a process or method by which several copies, as of a letter, are simultaneously made, sheets of coloring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred.
Man"i*fold, n.
1. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
2. (Mech.)
Definition: A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.
3. pl.
Definition: The third stomach of a ruminant animal. [Local, U.S.]
Man"i*fold, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manifolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Manifolding.]
Definition: To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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