Daily Mail Literary Quiz Starter For Ten

[kath54]

Hi everyone. Im stuck on this one and would be grateful for any help with it.

The word 'theist' has a straightforward meaning as one who holds a fundamental kinship with God. And yet in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)it has a secondary meaning. used of himself by Percy Bysshe Shelley, as someone with a particular love for which beverage?

[teacher1]

Born 223 years ago on Aug. 4, the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is celebrated for such works as his sublime odes to the skylark and West Wind. But he was also a radical thinker — and his revolutionary politics stormed in his teacup.

Slender of build and Spartan in habit, the tall, fair-haired poet had no taste for rich foods or wine. A vegetarian who shuddered at animal slaughter — though there were lapses into muttonchops and bacon — Shelley was an indifferent eater. He would absently spoon congealed food down his throat while his bright blue eyes devoured Aeschylus or Plutarch, whose essays on vegetarianism he translated.

But the one beverage to which he was addicted was tea.

[kath54]

Much appreciated. I wasnt sure if it was tea or water so thanks for answering that for me