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.
PALATING
Verb
palating
present participle of palate
Source: Wiktionary
PALATE
Pal"ate, n. Etym: [L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also palat.]
1. (Anat.)
Definition: The roof of the mouth.
Note: The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular curtain which separates the cavity of the mouth from the pharynx and is called the soft palate, or velum.
2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste. Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. Pope.
3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. T. Baker.
4. (Bot.)
Definition: A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
Pal"ate, v. t.
Definition: To perceive by the taste. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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