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.
REDDENED
inflamed, ablaze(p), reddened
(adjective) lighted with red light as if with flames; “streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees”; “the inflamed clouds at sunset”; “reddened faces around the campfire”
crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed
(adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; “crimson with fury”; “turned red from exertion”; “with puffy reddened eyes”; “red-faced and violent”; “flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
reddened
simple past tense and past participle of redden
Adjective
reddened (comparative more reddened, superlative most reddened)
Made red.
Anagrams
• deredden
Source: Wiktionary
REDDEN
Red"den (rd"d'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reddened (-d'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reddening.] Etym: [From Red, a.]
Definition: To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.
Red"den, v. i.
Definition: To grow or become red; to blush. Appius reddens at each word you speak. Pope. He no sooner saw that her eye glistened and her cheek reddened than his obstinacy was at once subbued. Sir W. SCott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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