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.
CONFORMING
conforming, conformist
(adjective) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
conforming (comparative more conforming, superlative most conforming)
Exhibiting conformity.
Verb
conforming
present participle of conform
Source: Wiktionary
CONFORM
Con*form", a. [L. conformis; con- + forma form: cf. F. conforme.]
Definition: Of the same form; similar in import; conformable. Bacon.
Care must be taken that the interpretation be every way conform to the analogy of faith. Bp.Hall.
Con*form", v. i.
1. To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit;
– with to or with.
A rule to which experience must conform. Whewell.
2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.
About two thousand ministers whose consciences did not suffer them to conform were driven from their benefices in a day. Macaulay.
Con*form", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conformed; p. pr. & vb. n. Conforming.] [F. conformer, L. conformare, -formatum; con- + formare to form, forma form. See Form.]
Definition: To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto.
Demand of them wherefore they conform not themselves unto the order of the church. Hooker.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SALTWORT
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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