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.
SILTED
Verb
silted
simple past tense and past participle of silt
Anagrams
• Steidl, delist, desilt, idlest, lestid, listed, slited, stiled, telsid, tildes
Source: Wiktionary
SILT
Silt, n. Etym: [OE. silte gravel, fr. silen to drain, E. sile; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. sila, prob. akin to AS. seĂłn to filter, sigan to fall, sink, cause to sink, G. seihen to strain, to filter, OHG. sihan, Icel.sia, Skr. sic to pour; cf. Gr. Sig, Sile.]
Definition: Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Silt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Silted; p. pr. & vb. n. Silting.]
Definition: To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
Silt, v. i.
Definition: To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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