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.
RECIPROCATING
Verb
reciprocating
present participle of reciprocate
Adjective
reciprocating (not comparable)
That moves backwards and forwards.
Source: Wiktionary
RECIPROCATE
Re*cip"ro*cate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reciprocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Reciprocating.] Etym: [L. reciprocatus, p. p. of reciprocare. See Reciprocal.]
Definition: To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate. One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air. Dryden. Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circular path.
– Reciprocating motion (Mech.), motion alternately backward and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.
Re*cip"ro*cate, v. t.
Definition: To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors. Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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