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.
SEELINGS
SEELING
Seel, Seel"ing, n.
Definition: The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. [Obs.] Sandys.
SEEL
Seel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeling.] Etym: [F.siller, ciller, fr. cil an eyelash, L. cilium.]
1. (Falconry)
Definition: To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head. Bacon. Fools climbs to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling. J. Reading.
2. Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. Shak. Gold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel. Chapman.
Seel, v. i. Etym: [Cf. LG. sielen to lead off water, F. siller to run ahead, to make headway, E. sile, v.t.]
Definition: To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
Seel, Seel"ing, n.
Definition: The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. [Obs.] Sandys.
Seel, n. Etym: [AS. s, from s good, prosperous. See Silly.]
1. Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel". Chaucer.
2. Time; season; as, hay seel. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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