An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ABORIGINALLY
Etymology
Adverb
aboriginally (not comparable)
From or in the earliest known times. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).
(Canada) By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense). [First attested in the 1980s.]
To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective).
Synonyms: absolutely, thoroughly, utterly
Source: Wiktionary
Ab`o*rig"i*nal*ly, adv.
Definition: Primarily.
ABORIGINAL
Ab`o*rig"i*nal, a. Etym: [See Aborigines.]
1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.
2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.
Ab`o*rig"i*nal, n.
1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.
2. An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
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