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.
SUNLIGHT
sunlight, sunshine, sun
(noun) the rays of the sun; “the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)
All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.
(figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
synonym of sunrise.
Synonyms
• (light from the sun): daylight, sunshine
• (brightness): hope, optimism
• (sunrise): break of day, first light, sunup; see also dawn
Hypernyms
• light
Verb
sunlight (third-person singular simple present sunlights, present participle sunlighting, simple past and past participle sunlighted)
To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.
Anagrams
• hustling, unlights
Source: Wiktionary
Sun"light`, n.
Definition: The light of the sun. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBLIGATE
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