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.
DRAMATIZE
embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
(verb) add details to
dramatize, dramatise
(verb) represent something in a dramatic manner; “These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today’s youth”
dramatize, dramatise, adopt
(verb) put into dramatic form; “adopt a book for a screenplay”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
dramatize (third-person singular simple present dramatizes, present participle dramatizing, simple past and past participle dramatized)
to adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television
to present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner
Source: Wiktionary
Dram"a*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dramatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Dramatizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. dramatiser.]
Definition: To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. They dramatized tyranny for public execration. Motley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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