In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
OPPOSITELY
oppositely
(adverb) in an opposite position
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
oppositely (comparative more oppositely, superlative most oppositely)
In an opposite manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Op"po*site*ly, adv.
Definition: In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
OPPOSITE
Op"po*site, a. Etym: [F., fr. L. oppositus, p. p. of opponere. See Opponent.]
1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.
3. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem. Dryden. Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations. Locke.
4. (Bot.) (a) Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node. (b) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.
Op"po*site, n.
1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. [Obs.] The opposites of this day's strife. Shak.
2. That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
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