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.
TORIES
Noun
tories
plural of tory
Anagrams
• Sortie, Storie, restio, sortie, storie, tiroes, triose, Ĺ“stri
Etymology
Noun
Tories
plural of Tory
Proper noun
Tories
(UK politics) The British Conservative Party
(Canadian politics) The Conservative Party of Canada or one of that party's predecessors, or provincial variants
Coordinate terms
(UK)
• Whigs
(Canada)
• Grits
Anagrams
• Sortie, Storie, restio, sortie, storie, tiroes, triose, Ĺ“stri
Source: Wiktionary
TORY
To"ry, n.; pl. Tories. Etym: [ Properly used of the Irish bogtrotters who robbed and plundered during the English civil wars, professing to be in sympathy with the royal cause; hence transferred to those who sought to maintain the extreme prerogatives of the crown; probably from Ir. toiridhe, tor, a pursuer; akin to Ir. & Gael. toir a pursuit.]
1. (Eng.Politics)
Definition: A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.
Note: The word Tory first occurs in English history in 1679, during the struggle in Parliament occasioned by the introduction of the bill for the exclusion of the duke of York from the line of succession, and was applied by the advocates of the bill to its opponents as a title of obloquy or contempt. The Tories subsequently took a broader ground, and their leading principle became the maintenance of things as they were. The name, however, has for several years ceased to designate an existing party, but is rather applied to certain traditional maxims of public policy. The political successors of the Tories are now commonly known as Conservatives. New Am. Cyc.
2. (Amer. Hist.)
Definition: One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.
To"ry, a.
Definition: Of ro pertaining to the Tories.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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