In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
REVERTED
Verb
reverted
simple past tense and past participle of revert
Adjective
reverted (comparative more reverted, superlative most reverted)
That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.).
Bent back, reversed.
Directed backwards.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*vert"ed, a.
Definition: Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.
REVERT
Re*vert", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverting.] Etym: [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse.]
1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. Prior. The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. Thomson.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. (Chem.)
Definition: To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
Re*vert", v. i.
1. To return; to come back. So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again. Shak.
2. (Law)
Definition: To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
3. (Biol.)
Definition: To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
4. (Chem.)
Definition: To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
Re*vert", n.
Definition: One who, or that which, reverts. An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. Fuller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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