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.
DISENTRAIN
Etymology
Verb
disentrain (third-person singular simple present disentrains, present participle disentraining, simple past and past participle disentrained)
To disembark from a train.
To precipitate out of a flowing current.
To disrupt an organism's circadian rhythm so that it is not aligned with its environment.
(more generally) To disrupt a body's homeostatic patterns.
(neurobiology) To extinguish a conditioned association.
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