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.
SUITOR
suitor, suer, wooer
(noun) a man who courts a woman; “a suer for the hand of the princess”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
suitor (plural suitors)
One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for marriage; a wooer; one who courts someone.
(law) A party to a suit or litigation.
One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
Verb
suitor (third-person singular simple present suitors, present participle suitoring, simple past and past participle suitored)
To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.
Anagrams
• turios
Source: Wiktionary
Suit"or, n.
1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak.
2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney.
3. (a) (Law) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc. (b) (O. Eng. Law) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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