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.
PROCTORISE
Etymology
Verb
proctorise (third-person singular simple present proctorises, present participle proctorising, simple past and past participle proctorised)
(transitive, UK, university slang, archaic) To summon (a person) before the proctor of a university.
Source: Wiktionary
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ASYSTOLE
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