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.
REITERATED
Verb
reiterated
simple past tense and past participle of reiterate
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REITERATE
Re*it"er*ate (-at), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reiterated (-a`têd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reiterating.] Etym: [Pref. re- + iterate: cf. F. réitérer, LL. reiterare to question again.]
Definition: To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak.
Syn.
– To repeat; recapitulate; rehearse.
Re*it"er*ate (-t), a.
Definition: Reiterated; repeated. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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