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.
ZYMOGENIC
Etymology
Adjective
zymogenic (not comparable)
(biology) pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene
(biology) capable of producing a definite zymogen or ferment
Source: Wiktionary
Zym`o*gen"ic, a. (Biol.) (a) Pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene. (b) Capable of producing a definite zymogen or ferment. Zymogenic organism (Biol.), a microörganism, such as the yeast plant of the Bacterium lactis, which sets up certain fermentative processes by which definite chemical products are formed; -- distinguished from a pathogenic organism. Cf. Micrococcus.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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