In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DISINHUME
Etymology
Verb
disinhume (third-person singular simple present disinhumes, present participle disinhuming, simple past and past participle disinhumed)
To disinter; to dig up from the earth.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis`in*hume", v. t.
Definition: To disinter. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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