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.
STINGERS
Noun
Stingers
plural of Stinger
Anagrams
• Tserings, restings, singster, tressing, trigness
Noun
stingers
plural of stinger
Anagrams
• Tserings, restings, singster, tressing, trigness
Source: Wiktionary
STINGER
Sting"er, n.
Definition: One who, or that which, stings. Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusæ of our seas are stingers. Owen.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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