In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LIQUEFIED
molten, liquefied, liquified
(adjective) reduced to liquid form by heating; “a mass of molten rock”
liquefied, liquified
(adjective) reduced to a liquid state; “liquefied petroleum gas”
LIQUEFY
liquefy, flux, liquify
(verb) become liquid or fluid when heated; “the frozen fat liquefied”
liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
(verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; “liquefy the silver”
liquefy
(verb) become liquid; “The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
liquefied (comparative more liquefied, superlative most liquefied)
Alternative spelling of liquified
Verb
liquefied
simple past tense and past participle of liquefy; Alternative spelling of liquified
Source: Wiktionary
LIQUEFY
Liq"ue*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquefied; p. pr. & vb. n. Liquefying.] Etym: [F. liquéfier, L. liquere to be liquid + facere, - ficare (in comp.), to make. See Liquid, and -fy.]
Definition: To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
Liq"ue*fy, v. i.
Definition: To become liquid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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