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.
PRELATIZED
Verb
prelatized
simple past tense and past participle of prelatize
Source: Wiktionary
PRELATIZE
Prel"a*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prelatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Prelatizing.]
Definition: To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
Prel"a*tize, v. i.
Definition: To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions. An episcopacy that began then to prelatize. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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