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.
ASSIGNATIONS
Noun
assignations
plural of assignation
Source: Wiktionary
ASSIGNATION
As`sig*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. assignatio, fr. assignare: cf. F. assignation.]
1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland.
2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Pope.
3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment. House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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