Plain brewed coffee contains almost no calories, while coffee with dairy products, sugar, and other flavorings is much higher in calories. An espresso has 20 calories. A nonfat latte has 72, while a flavored one has 134.
DEMEANED
Verb
demeaned
simple past tense and past participle of demean
Source: Wiktionary
DEMEAN
De*mean", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demeaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning.] Etym: [OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F. se démener to struggledé- (L. de) + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See Menace.]
1. To manage; to conduct; to treat. [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton.
2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death. Shak. They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon.
3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. Thackeray.
Note: This sense is probably due to a false etymology which regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean.
De*mean", n. Etym: [OF. demene. See Demean, v. t.]
1. Management; treatment. [Obs.] Vile demean and usage bad. Spenser.
2. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. [Obs.] With grave demean and solemn vanity. West.
De*mean", n. Etym: [See Demesne.]
1. Demesne. [Obs.]
2. pl.
Definition: Resources; means. [Obs.] You know How narrow our demeans are. Massinger.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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