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.
REINSTATE
restore, reinstate, reestablish
(verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position; “restore law and order”; “reestablish peace in the region”; “restore the emperor to the throne”
reinstate
(verb) restore to the previous state or rank
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
reinstate (third-person singular simple present reinstates, present participle reinstating, simple past and past participle reinstated)
(transitive) To restore to a former position or rank.
(transitive) To bring back into use or existence.
Anagrams
• retainest
Source: Wiktionary
Re`in*state" (-stt"), v. t.
Definition: To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom. For the just we have said already thet some of them were reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity. Glanvill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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