In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DISENABLE
disable, disenable, incapacitate
(verb) make unable to perform a certain action; “disable this command on your computer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
disenable (third-person singular simple present disenables, present participle disenabling, simple past and past participle disenabled)
(obsolete, transitive) To disable; to disqualify.
Synonyms
• See disable
Anagrams
• baselined
Source: Wiktionary
Dis`en*a"ble, v. t. Etym: [Pref. dis- + enable.]
Definition: To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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