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.
SLAVERED
Verb
slavered
simple past tense and past participle of slaver
Anagrams
• Laverdes, Velardes
Source: Wiktionary
SLAVER
Slav"er, n.
1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow.
Slav"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slavering.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. slafra. See Slabber.]
1. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
2. To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.
Slav"er, v. t.
Definition: To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
Slav"er, n.
Definition: Saliva driveling from the mouth. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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