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.
DECIMALIZED
Verb
decimalized
simple past tense and past participle of decimalize
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
DECIMALIZE
Dec"i*mal*ize, v. t.
Definition: To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.
– Dec`i*mal*i*za"tion, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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