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.
INFANTILIZE
Etymology
Verb
infantilize (third-person singular simple present infantilizes, present participle infantilizing, simple past and past participle infantilized)
(transitive) To reduce (a person) to the state or status of an infant.
(transitive) To treat (a person) like a child.
Source: Wiktionary
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