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.
VERNACULARISE
Verb
vernacularise (third-person singular simple present vernacularises, present participle vernacularising, simple past and past participle vernacularised)
Alternative form of vernacularize
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