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.
MASTICATION
chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
(noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
mastication (countable and uncountable, plural mastications)
(physiology) The process of chewing.
The process of crushing as though chewed.
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Source: Wiktionary
Mas`ti*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. masticatio: cf. F. mastication.]
Definition: The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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