In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
COARCTATED
Verb
coarctated
simple past tense and past participle of coarctate
Source: Wiktionary
COARCTATE
Co*arct", Co*arc"tate, v. t. Etym: [See Coarctate, a.]
1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. To restrain; to confine. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
Co*arc"tate, a. Etym: [L. coarctatus, p. p. of coarctare to press together; co- + arctare to press together, from arctus, p. p. See Arctation.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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