In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ORACULARLY
Etymology
Adverb
oracularly (comparative more oracularly, superlative most oracularly)
In an oracular manner.
Source: Wiktionary
ORACULAR
O*rac"u*lar, a. Etym: [L. oracularius. See Oracle.]
1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression. Pope.
– O*rac"u*lar*ly, adv.
– O*rac"u*lar*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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