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.
DEFOG
demist, defog
(verb) free from mist; “demist the car windows”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
defog (third-person singular simple present defogs, present participle defogging, simple past and past participle defogged)
(transitive) To remove the moisture or fog from.
(transitive, informal) To make intelligible; to free from confusion.
Source: Wiktionary
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