Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be āsatanic.ā However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
LEVITATED
Verb
levitated
simple past tense and past participle of levitate
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Source: Wiktionary
LEVITATE
Lev"i*tate, v. i. Etym: [L. levitas, -atis, lightness. See Levity.]
Definition: To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate. Sir. J. Herschel.
Lev"i*tate, v. i. (Spiritualism)
Definition: To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table. [Cant]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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