In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
INGEMINATE
repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
(verb) to say, state, or perform again; “She kept reiterating her request”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
ingeminate (third-person singular simple present ingeminates, present participle ingeminating, simple past and past participle ingeminated)
(transitive) To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
Adjective
ingeminate (comparative more ingeminate, superlative most ingeminate)
redoubled
reiterated
Anagrams
• matineeing
Source: Wiktionary
In*gem"i*nate, a. Etym: [L. ingeminatus, p. p.]
Definition: Redoubled; repeated. Jer. Taylor.
In*gem"i*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingeminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ingeminating.] Etym: [L. ingeminatus, p. p. of ingeminare to double; pref. in- in + geminare. See Geminate.]
Definition: To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. Clarendon. . . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. Sandys.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBSERVE
(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”
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