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.
CESSIONS
Noun
cessions
plural of cession
Anagrams
• cosiness, scioness
Source: Wiktionary
CESSION
Ces"sion, n. Etym: [L. cessio, fr. cedere to give way: cf. F. Cession. See Cede.]
1. A yielding to physical force. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. Concession; compliance. [Obs.]
3. A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding. A cession of the island of New Orleans. Bancroft.
4. (Eccl. Law)
Definition: The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
5. (Civil Law)
Definition: The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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