In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
prelates
plural of prelate
• Pterelas, pasteler, pleaters, replates, repleats, restaple, spearlet
Source: Wiktionary
Prel"ate (; 48), n. Etym: [F. prélat, LL. praelatus, fr. L. praelatus, used as p. p. of praeferre to prefer, but from a different root. See Elate.]
Definition: A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
Note: This word and the words derived from it are often used invidiously, in English ecclesiastical history, by dissenters, respecting the Established Church system. Hear him but reason in divinity, . . . You would desire the king were made a prelate. Shak.
Prel"ate, v. i.
Definition: To act as a prelate. [Obs.] Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording. Latimer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 May 2024
(noun) valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.