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.
UNCLOISTER
Etymology
Verb
uncloister (third-person singular simple present uncloisters, present participle uncloistering, simple past and past participle uncloistered)
To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to liberate.
Anagrams
• interlocus, reticulons
Source: Wiktionary
Un*clois"ter, v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + cloister.]
Definition: To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to set free; to liberate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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