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.
DISENABLE
disable, disenable, incapacitate
(verb) make unable to perform a certain action; “disable this command on your computer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
disenable (third-person singular simple present disenables, present participle disenabling, simple past and past participle disenabled)
(obsolete, transitive) To disable; to disqualify.
Synonyms
• See disable
Anagrams
• baselined
Source: Wiktionary
Dis`en*a"ble, v. t. Etym: [Pref. dis- + enable.]
Definition: To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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