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.
DISCOMMON
Etymology
Verb
discommon (third-person singular simple present discommons, present participle discommoning, simple past and past participle discommoned)
To deprive of the right of common.
To deprive of privileges.
(legal) To deprive (lands etc.) of commonable quality, by enclosing or appropriating.
(transitive, UK, Oxford and Cambridge universities, historical) To deprive of the right to deal with undergraduates.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*com"mon, v. t.
1. To deprive of the right of common. [R.] Bp. Hall.
2. To deprive of privileges. [R.] T. Warton.
3. (Law)
Definition: To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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