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.
PREFORMAT
Etymology
Verb
preformat (third-person singular simple present preformats, present participle preformatting, simple past and past participle preformatted)
(transitive) To format in advance.
Buying preformatted floppy disks saved me a lot of time.
Source: Wiktionary
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RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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