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.
VISCERATES
Verb
viscerates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of viscerate
Source: Wiktionary
VISCERATE
Vis"cer*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Viscerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Viscerating.]
Definition: To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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