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.
RENDEZVOUSED
Verb
rendezvoused
simple past tense and past participle of rendezvous
Source: Wiktionary
RENDEZVOUS
Ren"dez*vous (rn"d*voo or rn"-; 277), n.; pl. Rendezvouses (r.
Note: [Rare in the plural.] Etym: [F. rendez-vous, properly, render yourselves, repair to a place. See Render.]
1. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet. An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers. Sir W. Scott.
2. Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment. The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough. Clarendon.
3. A meeting by appointment. Sprat.
4. Retreat; refuge. [Obs.] Shak.
Ren"dez*vous (rn"d-voo or rn"-; 277), v. i. [imp. &. p. p. Rendezvoused (-vood); p. pr. & vb. n. Rendezvousing (-voo*ng).]
Definition: To assemble or meet at a particular place.
Ren"dez*vous, v. t.
Definition: To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled. Echard.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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