In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
amnesty
(verb) grant a pardon to (a group of people)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
amnestied
simple past tense and past participle of amnesty
amnestied (comparative more amnestied, superlative most amnestied)
That has been given amnesty; whose past offences have been forgiven.
• Mendaites, Mendietas, Tiedemans, dementias, semantide, seminated
Source: Wiktionary
Am"nes*ty, n. Etym: [L. amnestia, Gr. amnistie, earlier amnestie. See Mean, v.]
1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
Am"nes*ty, v. t. [imp. p. p. Amnestied; p. pr. & vb. n. Amnestying.]
Definition: To grant amnesty to.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 June 2025
(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.