In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MINACIOUS
baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening
(adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; “a baleful look”; “forbidding thunderclouds”; “his tone became menacing”; “ominous rumblings of discontent”; “sinister storm clouds”; “a sinister smile”; “his threatening behavior”; “ugly black clouds”; “the situation became ugly”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
minacious (not comparable)
(now rare) Threatening, menacing.
Source: Wiktionary
Mi*na"cious, a. Etym: [L. minax, -acis. See Menace.]
Definition: Threatening; menacing. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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