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.
VASTER
Adjective
vaster
comparative form of vast
Anagrams
• averts, ravest, starve, tarves, traves, versta
Source: Wiktionary
VAST
Vast, a. [Compar. Vaster; superl. Vastest.] Etym: [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]
1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. Shak.
2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia. Through the vast and boundless deep. Milton.
3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
Syn.
– Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.
Vast, n.
Definition: A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery vast." Pope. Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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