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.
ENCAPSULATE
encapsulate, capsule, capsulize, capsulise
(verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; “capsulize the news”
encapsulate
(verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
encapsulate (third-person singular simple present encapsulates, present participle encapsulating, simple past and past participle encapsulated)
(transitive) To enclose something as if in a capsule.
(transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
(software, object-oriented) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
(networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
Source: Wiktionary
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DISPERSION
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
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