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.
REOPERATE
Etymology
Verb
reoperate (third-person singular simple present reoperates, present participle reoperating, simple past and past participle reoperated)
(intransitive, surgery) to operate (surgically) again (on the same thing as a previous operation).
(intransitive) to begin to operate or function again.
(transitive, manufacturing) to bring back (something) into operation.
AntonĂ and Consuela reoperated the factory's candy machine that had been stored in the storage room for over a decade.
Source: Wiktionary
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