In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DETRACT
Etymology
Verb
detract (third-person singular simple present detracts, present participle detracting, simple past and past participle detracted)
(intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.
(transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.
Synonyms
• (to take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry): defame, decry
• See also defame
Anagrams
• tracted
Source: Wiktionary
De*tract", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Detracting.] Etym: [L. detractus, p. p. of detrahere to detract; de + trahere to draw: cf. F. détracter. See Trace.]
1. To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton.
2. To take credit or reputation from; to defame. That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. Drayton.
Syn.
– To derogate; decry; disparage; depreciate; asperse; vilify; defame; traduce. See Decry.
De*tract", v. i.
Definition: To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from. It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literary character of Cicero. V. Knox.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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