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.
ABSCIND
Etymology
Verb
abscind (third-person singular simple present abscinds, present participle abscinding, simple past and past participle abscinded)
(transitive, archaic) To cut off. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
Source: Wiktionary
Ab*scind", v. t. Etym: [L. absindere; ab + scindere to rend, cut. See Schism.]
Definition: To cut off. [R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest." Johnson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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