In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
OVERREGULATE
Etymology
Verb
overregulate (third-person singular simple present overregulates, present participle overregulating, simple past and past participle overregulated)
To regulate to a greater degree than appropriate
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(noun) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; “Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock”
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