In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CONCRETIONS
Noun
concretions
plural of concretion
Anagrams
• concertinos, concertions, conetronics
Source: Wiktionary
CONCRETION
Con*cre"tion, n. Etym: [L. concretio.]
1. The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.
2. A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.
3. (Geol.)
Definition: A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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