In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SAGENITIC
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Adjective
sagenitic (comparative more sagenitic, superlative most sagenitic)
(mineralogy) Resembling sagenite; applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile.
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Sag`e*nit"ic, a. (Min.)
Definition: Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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