Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be âsatanic.â However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PICTURESQUELY
picturesquely
(adverb) in a picturesque manner; âin the building trade such a trader is picturesquely described as a âbrass plateâ merchantâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
picturesquely (comparative more picturesquely, superlative most picturesquely)
In a picturesque manner.
Source: Wiktionary
PICTURESQUE
Pic`tur*esque", a. Etym: [It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial.]
Definition: Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey.
– Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv.
– Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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