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.
PANANGLICAN
Pan`-An"gli*can, a. Etym: [Pan- + Anglican.] (Eccl.)
Definition: Belonging to, or representing, the whole Church of England; used less strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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