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.
PROSING
Etymology
Adjective
prosing (not comparable)
Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
Noun
prosing (countable and uncountable, plural prosings)
Tedious talk or writing. [from 18th c.]
Anagrams
• porings, prosign, ropings, sporing, sproing
Source: Wiktionary
Pros"ing, n.
Definition: Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. Sir W. Scott.
PROSE
Prose, n. Etym: [F. prose, L. prosa, fr. prorsus, prosus, straight forward, straight on, for proversus; pro forward + versus, p. p. of vertere to turn. See Verse.]
1. The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition. I speak in prose, and let him rymes make. Chaucer. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry, that is; prose -- words in their best order; poetry
– the best order. Coleridge.
2. Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
3. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
Prose, a.
1. Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
2. Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
Prose, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prosed; p. pr. & vb. n. Prosing.]
1. To write in prose.
2. To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
Prose, v. i.
1. To write prose. Prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
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