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.
TRICES
Proper noun
Trices
plural of Trice
Anagrams
• citers, criest, recits, retics, steric
Noun
trices
plural of trice
Verb
trices
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trice
Anagrams
• citers, criest, recits, retics, steric
Source: Wiktionary
TRICE
Trice, v. t. Etym: [OE. trisen; of Scand. or Low German origin; cf. Sw. trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Dan. tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley, to trice, LG. trisse a pulley, D. trijsen to hoist.] [Written also trise.]
1. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
Trice, n. Etym: [Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin.]
Definition: A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." Turbervile. " On a trice." Shak. A man shall make his fortune in a trice. Young.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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