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.
REOPEN
reopen
(verb) open again or anew; “They reopened the theater”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
reopen (third-person singular simple present reopens, present participle reopening, simple past and past participle reopened)
(transitive) To open (something) again.
(intransitive) To open again.
Anagrams
• Perone, opener, pereon, perone, poneer, repone
Source: Wiktionary
Re*o"pen (r-"p'n), v. t. & i.
Definition: To open again.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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IMMOBILIZATION
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
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