In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
IMBODY
Etymology
Verb
imbody (third-person singular simple present imbodies, present participle imbodying, simple past and past participle imbodied)
Archaic form of embody.
Source: Wiktionary
Im*bod"y, v. i. Etym: [See Embody.]
Definition: To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody. The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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