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.
VASECTOMIZE
vasectomize, vasectomise
(verb) remove the vas deferens; “many men choose to be vasectomized as a form of safe birth control”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
vasectomize (third-person singular simple present vasectomizes, present participle vasectomizing, simple past and past participle vasectomized)
to perform a vasectomy
Source: Wiktionary
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SOLICITOUSLY
(adverb) in a concerned and solicitous manner; “‘Don’t you feel well?’ his mother asked solicitously”
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