In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EXERCITATION
Etymology
Noun
exercitation (countable and uncountable, plural exercitations)
(obsolete) The exercise or exertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*er`ci*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. exercitatio, fr. exercitare, intense., fr. exercere to exercise: CF. f. exercitation.]
Definition: exercise; practice; use. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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