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.
MOILED
Verb
moiled
simple past tense and past participle of moil
Anagrams
• doilem, dolime, meloid
Source: Wiktionary
MOIL
Moil, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Moiling.] Etym: [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F. mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See Mollify.]
Definition: To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.
Moil, v. i. Etym: [From Moil to daub; prob. from the idea of struggling through the wet.]
Definition: To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge. Moil not too much under ground. Bacon. Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes. Dryden.
Moil, n.
Definition: A spot; a defilement. The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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