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.
BETHOUGHT
BETHINK
bethink
(verb) consider or ponder something carefully; “She bethought her of their predicament”
bethink
(verb) cause oneself to consider something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
bethought (comparative more bethought, superlative most bethought)
(of a thing) Intended; purposed; contrived.
(of a person) Minded; disposed.
Verb
bethought
simple past tense and past participle of bethink
Source: Wiktionary
Be*thought",
Definition: imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
BETHINK
Be*think", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bethought; p. pr. & vb. n. Bethinking.] Etym: [AS. be; pref. be- + to think. See Think.]
Definition: To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. We bethink a means to break it off. Shak.
Syn.
– To recollect; remember; reflect.
Be*think", v. i.
Definition: To think; to recollect; to consider. "Bethink ere thou dismiss us." Byron.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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