In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
medicaster (plural medicasters)
(dated, now, chiefly, literary) A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
• quack
• quacksalver (archaic)
• miscreated
Source: Wiktionary
Med"i*cas`ter, n. Etym: [Cf. F. médicastre. See Medical.]
Definition: A quack. [R.] Whitlock.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 September 2024
(noun) a small contrasting part of something; “a bald spot”; “a leopard’s spots”; “a patch of clouds”; “patches of thin ice”; “a fleck of red”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.