In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DISEMBROIL
disinvolve, disembroil, disentangle
(verb) free from involvement or entanglement; “How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
disembroil (third-person singular simple present disembroils, present participle disembroiling, simple past and past participle disembroiled)
To free or extricate from confusion
Source: Wiktionary
Dis`em*broil", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembroiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Disembroiling.] Etym: [Pref. dis- + embroil.]
Definition: To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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