In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CORPOREITY
Etymology
Noun
corporeity (countable and uncountable, plural corporeities)
(uncountable) The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
(countable) A body, a physical substance.
Source: Wiktionary
Cor`po*re"i*ty (kr`p-r"-t), n. Etym: [LL. corporeitas: cf. F. corpor.]
Definition: The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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