In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
astart (third-person singular simple present astarts, present participle astarting, simple past and past participle astarted)
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to start; startle; start up; jump.
(intransitive) To start up.
(obsolete) To get away, escape; escape from.
(intransitive) To be escaped from.
astart (not comparable)
(obsolete) With a start; suddenly.
• Attars, Sattar, Tatars, Tatras, attars, strata
Source: Wiktionary
A*start", v. t. & i.
Definition: Same as Astert. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.