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.
INTROSUSCEPTION
Noun
introsusception (countable and uncountable, plural introsusceptions)
The act or process of receiving within.
(medicine) intussusception
Source: Wiktionary
In`tro*sus*cep"tion, n.
1. The act or process of receiving within. The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby. Coleridge.
2. (Med.)
Definition: Same as Intussusception.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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