In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DECAPITATION
decapitation, beheading
(noun) killing by cutting off the head
decapitation, beheading
(noun) execution by cutting off the victim’s head
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
decapitation (countable and uncountable, plural decapitations)
Beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating
The ousting or destruction of the ruling body of a government or other organization.
(politics) The unseating of a senior politician.
Synonyms
• beheading
Source: Wiktionary
De*cap`i*ta"tion, n. Etym: [LL. decapitatio: cf. F. décapitation.]
Definition: The act of beheading; beheading.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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