In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DELIMITED
bounded, delimited
(adjective) having the limits or boundaries established; “a delimited frontier through the disputed region”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
delimited (not comparable)
With specified conditions.
Within set boundaries or limits.
Synonyms
• (within set boundaries): bounded, demarcated
Hyponyms
• brace-delimited
Verb
delimited
simple past tense and past participle of delimit
Source: Wiktionary
DELIMIT
De*lim"it, v. t. Etym: [L. delimitare: cf. F. délimitier.]
Definition: To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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