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.
REFLOAT
refloat
(verb) set afloat again; “refloat a grounded boat”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
refloat (third-person singular simple present refloats, present participle refloating, simple past and past participle refloated)
(transitive) To cause to float again.
Noun
refloat (plural refloats)
The process of getting something to float again.
Anagrams
• Laforte, floater, floe rat
Source: Wiktionary
Re"float (r"flt), n.
Definition: Reflux; ebb. [Obs.] Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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