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.
SPORULATION
monogenesis, sporulation
(noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sporulation (usually uncountable, plural sporulations)
The process of a bacterium becoming a spore.
Source: Wiktionary
Spor`u*la"tion, n. (Biol.)
Definition: The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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AGITATION
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
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