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.
PORE
pore
(noun) any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
stoma, stomate, pore
(noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass
pore
(noun) any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet
(verb) direct one’s attention on something; “Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
pore (plural pores)
A tiny opening in the skin.
By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
Etymology 2
Verb
pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)
to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
to meditate or reflect in a steady way.
Anagrams
• Pero, oper, reop, repo, rope
Source: Wiktionary
Pore, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. porus, Gr. Fare, v.]
1. One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
2. A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
Pore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pored; p. pr. & vb. n. Poring.] Etym: [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to poke, thrust, Gael. purr.]
Definition: To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over."Painfully to pore upon a book." Shak. The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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