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.
AUTOTYPING
Verb
autotyping
present participle of autotype
Source: Wiktionary
AUTOTYPE
Au"to*type, n. Etym: [Auto- + -type: cf. F. autotype.]
1. A facsimile.
2. A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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