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.
CONSEQUENCING
Verb
consequencing
present participle of consequence
Source: Wiktionary
Con"se*quen`cing, n.
Definition: Drawing inference. [R.] Milton.
CONSEQUENCE
Con"se*quence, n. Etym: [L., consequentia: cf. F. conséquence. See Consequent.]
1. That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result. Shun to taste, And shun the bitter consequence. Milton.
2. (Logic)
Definition: A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
3. Chain of causes and effects; consecution. Such fatal consequence unites us three. Milton. Link follows link by necessary consequence. Coleridge.
4. Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction. It is a matter of small consequence. Shak. A sense of your own worth and consequence. Cowper. In consequence, hence; for this cause.
– In consequence of, by reason of; as the effect of.
Syn.
– Effect; result; end. See Effect.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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