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.
REMITTER
Etymology
Noun
remitter (plural remitters)
One who remits, or makes remittance.
One who pardons.
(legal) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right formerly held; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit.
Anagrams
• trimeter, trimetre
Source: Wiktionary
Re*mit"ter (-tr), n.
1. One who remits. Specifically: (a) One who pardons. (b) One who makes remittance.
2. (Law)
Definition: The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit. Bouvier.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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