In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
VACILLATES
Verb
vacillates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vacillate
Anagrams
• laticlaves
Source: Wiktionary
VACILLATE
Vac"il*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vacillated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vacillating.] Etym: [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. vañc.]
1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley.
2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.
Syn.
– See Fluctuate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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