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.
TROPICALISE
Verb
tropicalise (third-person singular simple present tropicalises, present participle tropicalising, simple past and past participle tropicalised)
Alternative form of tropicalize
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MECHANISM
(noun) the technical aspects of doing something; “a mechanism of social control”; “mechanisms of communication”; “the mechanics of prose style”
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