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.
TABLETS
Noun
tablets
plural of tablet
Anagrams
• batlets, battels, battles
Source: Wiktionary
TABLET
Ta"blet, n. Etym: [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.]
1. A small table or flat surface.
2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
4. pl.
Definition: A kind of pocket memorandum book.
5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
6. (Pharm.)
Definition: A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares;
– called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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