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.
VULCANIZABLE
Etymology
Adjective
vulcanizable (comparative more vulcanizable, superlative most vulcanizable)
Capable of being vulcanized.
Source: Wiktionary
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LOSE
(verb) allow to go out of sight or mind; “The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light”; “lose the crowds by climbing a mountain”; “the lost tribe”
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