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.
VIALLED
Verb
vialled
simple past tense and past participle of vial
Anagrams
• Villeda
Source: Wiktionary
VIAL
Vi"al, n. Etym: [OE. viole, fiole, F. fiole. See Phial.]
Definition: A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine. [Written also phial.] Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor thou off. Shak.
Vi"al, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vialed or Vialled; p. pr. & vb. n. Vialing or Vialling.]
Definition: To put in a vial or vials. "Precious vialed liquors." Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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