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.
TEMSE
Etymology
Verb
temse (third-person singular simple present temses, present participle temsing, simple past and past participle temsed)
(obsolete or dialectal) To sift.
Noun
temse (plural temses)
(UK, obsolete or dialectal) A sieve.
Anagrams
• Tesem, meets, metes, steem, steme, teems, temes
Source: Wiktionary
Temse, n. Etym: [F. tamis, or D. tems, teems. Cf. Tamine.]
Definition: A sieve. [Written also tems, and tempse.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Temse bread, Temsed bread, Temse loaf, bread made of flour better sifted than common fluor. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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