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.
EMPLACE
emplace
(verb) put into place or position; “the box with the ancestors’ ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar”
emplace
(verb) provide a new emplacement for guns
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
emplace (third-person singular simple present emplaces, present participle emplacing, simple past and past participle emplaced)
To assign a position to something, or to locate something at a particular place
Anagrams
• clampee
Source: Wiktionary
Em*place", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emplaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Emplacing.] [Cf. F. emplacer. See En-; Place, v. & n.]
Definition: To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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