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.
REHOSPITALIZE
Etymology
Verb
rehospitalize (third-person singular simple present rehospitalizes, present participle rehospitalizing, simple past and past participle rehospitalized)
(transitive) To hospitalize again.
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