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.
MENSE
Etymology
Noun
mense (plural menses)
Property, owndom; possessions.
(UK, dialect) manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility
Verb
mense (third-person singular simple present menses, present participle mensing, simple past and past participle mensed)
To adorn, bring honour to; grace.
Anagrams
• Semen, menes, mesen, mesne, neems, semen
Source: Wiktionary
Mense, n. Etym: [OE. menske, AS. mennisc human, man. See Man.]
Definition: Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
– Mense"ful, a.
– Mense"less, a.
Mense, v. t.
Definition: To grace. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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