In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BARBAROUSLY
barbarously
(adverb) in a barbarous manner; “they were barbarously murdered”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
barbarously (comparative more barbarously, superlative most barbarously)
In a barbarous manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Bar"ba*rous*ly, adv.
Definition: In a barbarous manner.
BARBAROUS
Bar"ba*rous, a. Etym: [L. barbarus, Gr. , strange, foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara stammering, outlandish. Cf. Brave, a.]
1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.[Obs.] Barbarous gold. Dryden.
3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon.
4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell.
Syn.
– Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See Ferocious.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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MECHANISM
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