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.
REGAINS
Verb
regains
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of regain
Anagrams
• Angries, Gainers, Gearins, Reagins, Searing, earings, erasing, gainers, inrages, raignes, reagins, regians, searing, seringa
Source: Wiktionary
REGAIN
Re*gain" (r*gn"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + gain: cf. F. regagner.]
Definition: To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
Syn.
– To recover; reobtain; repossess; retrieve.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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