In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
RELATES
Verb
relates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of relate
Anagrams
• Laertes, Laseter, e-alerts, earlets, elaters, realest, reslate, stealer, teleras
Source: Wiktionary
RELATE
Re*late" (r-lt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Related; p. pr. & vb. n. Relating.] Etym: [F. relater to recount, LL. relatare, fr. L. relatus, used as p. p. of referre. See Elate, and cf. Refer.]
1. To bring back; to restore. [Obs.] Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser.
2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. [Obs. or R.]
3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy heart relate. Shak.
4. To ally by connection or kindred. To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words. [R.]
Syn.
– To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe.
Re*late", v. i.
1. To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to. All negative or privative words relate positive ideas. Locke.
2. To make reference; to take account. [R.& Obs.] Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account. Fuller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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