In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
THREATED
Verb
threated
simple past tense and past participle of threat
Anagrams
• hattered, rehatted, treadeth
Source: Wiktionary
THREAT
Threat, n. Etym: [AS. , akin to a to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel. to fail, want, lack, Goth. us to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push. Cf. Abstruse, Intrude, Obstrude, Protrude.]
Definition: The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak.
Threat, v. t. & i. Etym: [OE. , AS. . See Threat, n.]
Definition: To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak. Of all his threating reck not a mite. Chaucer. Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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