In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CASTRATED
castrated, unsexed
(adjective) deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
castrated (comparative more castrated, superlative most castrated)
Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).
Verb
castrated
simple past tense and past participle of castrate
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Source: Wiktionary
CASTRATE
Cas"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Castrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Castrating.] Etym: [L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to castrate, asin to Skr. çastra knife.]
1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CONSECRATION
(noun) (religion) sanctification of something by setting it apart (usually with religious rites) as dedicated to God; “the Cardinal attended the consecration of the church”
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