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.
INCINERATION
incineration
(noun) the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
incineration (countable and uncountable, plural incinerations)
The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.
Source: Wiktionary
In*cin`er*a"tion, n. Etym: [LL. incineratio: cf. F. incinération.]
Definition: The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation. The phenix kind, Of whose incineration, There riseth a new creation. Skelton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUSPENDED
(adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; “suspended matter such as silt or mud...”; “dust particles suspended in the air”; “droplets in suspension in a gas”
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