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.
UNFIX
Etymology
Verb
unfix (third-person singular simple present unfixes, present participle unfixing, simple past and past participle unfixed)
(transitive) To unfasten from a fixing.
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?
Source: Wiktionary
Un*fix", v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + fix.]
1. To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.
2. To make fluid; to dissolve. [R.] The mountain stands; nor can the rising sun Unfix her frosts. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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IMMOBILIZATION
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
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