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.
VINIFY
vinify
(verb) convert a juice into wine by fermentation; “vinify grape juice”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
vinify (third-person singular simple present vinifies, present participle vinifying, simple past and past participle vinified)
To convert the juice of a fruit (especially that of the grape) into wine by fermentation.
Source: Wiktionary
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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