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.
STYLIZE
stylize, stylise, conventionalize
(verb) represent according to a conventional style; “a stylized female head”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
stylize (third-person singular simple present stylizes, present participle stylizing, simple past and past participle stylized)
(transitive) To represent in a particular style.
(transitive) To represent abstractly in a conventional manner, commonly fancifully symbolic, to identify a particular item, by omitting most of the detail that is not unique to the item in question.
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• zestily
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