In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BESTILL
Etymology
Verb
bestill (third-person singular simple present bestills, present participle bestilling, simple past and past participle bestilled)
(transitive) To make quiet or still; calm; pacify.
Anagrams
• LIBlets, bellist, billets
Source: Wiktionary
Be*still", v. t.
Definition: To make still.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RIGHT
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
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