In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PHRENOLOGIES
Noun
phrenologies
plural of phrenology
Anagrams
• pigeonholers
Source: Wiktionary
PHRENOLOGY
Phre*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. F. phrénologie.]
1. The science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.
2. In popular usage, the physiological hypothesis of Gall, that the mental faculties, and traits of character, are shown on the surface of the head or skull; craniology.
Note: Gall marked out on his model of the head the places of twenty- six organs, as round inclosures with vacant interspaces. Spurzheim and Combe divided the whole scalp into oblong and conterminous patches. Encyc. Brit.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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