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.
ACCLIMATIZE
acclimatize, acclimatise, acclimate
(verb) get used to a certain climate; “They never acclimatized in Egypt”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
acclimatize (third-person singular simple present acclimatizes, present participle acclimatizing, simple past and past participle acclimatized)
(intransitive) To get used to a new climate.
(transitive) To make used to a new climate or one that is different from that which is natural; to inure or habituate to other circumstances; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate.
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cli"ma*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acclimatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimatizing.]
Definition: To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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