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.
REVIVIFICATION
revival, resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation, revivification
(noun) bringing again into activity and prominence; “the revival of trade”; “a revival of a neglected play by Moliere”; “the Gothic revival in architecture”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
revivification (countable and uncountable, plural revivifications)
The act of reviving; restoration of life.
(chemistry, obsolete) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*viv`i*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. révivification.]
1. Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recaling, or the state of being recalled, to life.
2. (Old Chem.)
Definition: The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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