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.
INGRAFT
graft, engraft, ingraft
(verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants; “graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
ingraft (third-person singular simple present ingrafts, present participle ingrafting, simple past and past participle ingrafted)
Alternative spelling of engraft
Anagrams
• farting, rafting
Source: Wiktionary
In*graft", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingrafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ingrafting.] Etym: [Written also engraft.]
1. To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. Dryden. A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome. Burke.
2. To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TYPIFY
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
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