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.
REEMERGE
Etymology
Verb
reemerge (third-person singular simple present reemerges, present participle reemerging, simple past and past participle reemerged)
To emerge again, to come into view after having hidden.
To come out of a situation, object or a liquid after having entered it.
Source: Wiktionary
Re`Ă«*merge" (r`*mrj"), v. i.
Definition: To emerge again.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SCOPOLAMINE
(noun) an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures; “transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness”; “someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying”
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