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.
CATHETERISE
catheterize, catheterise
(verb) insert a catheter into (a body part); “catheterize the patient’s bladder”
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Etymology
Verb
catheterise (third-person singular simple present catheterises, present participle catheterising, simple past and past participle catheterised)
Alternative form of catheterize
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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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