In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
exhibited
simple past tense and past participle of exhibit
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*hib"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhibited; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhibiting.] Etym: [L. exhibitus, p. p. of exhibere to hold forth, to tender, exhibit; ex out + habere to have or hold. See Habit.]
1. To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.
2. (Law)
Definition: To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge. He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl. Clarendon.
3. (Med.)
Definition: To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel. To exhibit a foundation or prize, to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to candidates.
– To exibit an essay, to declaim or otherwise present it in public. [Obs.]
Ex*hib"it, n.
1. Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.
2. (Law)
Definition: A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 May 2024
(noun) acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable); “incurring debts is easier than paying them”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.