Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be āsatanic.ā However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SADE
Sade, de Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade
(noun) French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term āsadismā (1740-1814)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
sade (third-person singular simple present sades, present participle sading, simple past and past participle saded)
(dialect) To tire, weary.
Etymology 2
Noun
sade (plural sades)
Alternative spelling of sadhe
Anagrams
• 'eads, AEDs, Ades, Desa, ESAD, Eads, Seda, ades, deas
Source: Wiktionary
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DETENTION
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); āhis detention was politically motivatedā; āthe prisoner is on holdā; āhe is in the custody of policeā
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