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.
YBLENT
Etymology
Verb
yblent
(archaic) past participle of blend
Adjective
yblent (comparative more yblent, superlative most yblent)
(archaic or poetic) Confused
Source: Wiktionary
BLEND
Blend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent; p. pr. & vb. n. Blending.] Etym: [OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin.]
1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.
2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] Spenser.
Syn.
– To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.
Blend, v. i.
Definition: To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.
Blend, n.
Definition: A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.
Blend, v. t. Etym: [AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a.]
Definition: To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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