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.
SLURRED
slurred, thick
(adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue; “the thick speech of a drunkard”; “his words were slurred”
SLUR
blur, dim, slur
(verb) become vague or indistinct; “The distinction between the two theories blurred”
slur
(verb) utter indistinctly
slur
(verb) speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; “your comments are slurring your co-workers”
slur
(verb) play smoothly or legato; “the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
slurred
simple past tense and past participle of slur
Source: Wiktionary
Slurred, a. (Mus.)
Definition: Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.
SLUR
Slur, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Slurring.] Etym: [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. sl, slo, to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a sluttish girl.]
1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. Cudworth.
2. To disparage; to traduce. Tennyson.
3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. Dryden.
4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.] To slur men of what they fought for. Hudibras.
5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
6. (Mus.)
Definition: To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. Busby.
7. (Print.)
Definition: To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Slur, n.
1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. "Gaining to his name a lasting slur." South.
2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]
3. (Mus.)
Definition: A mark, thus [&upslur; or ], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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