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.
REMEDIAL
remedial
(adjective) tending or intended to rectify or improve; “a remedial reading course”; “remedial education”
curative, healing, alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic
(adjective) tending to cure or restore to health; “curative powers of herbal remedies”; “her gentle healing hand”; “remedial surgery”; “a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air”; “a therapeutic agent”; “therapeutic diets”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
remedial (comparative more remedial, superlative most remedial)
curative; providing a remedy
intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject
Anagrams
• remailed
Source: Wiktionary
Re*me"di*al (-al), a. Etym: [L. remedialis.]
Definition: Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EVANGELICAL
(adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
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