An article published in Harvard Menās 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.
DISPENSED
dispensed
(adjective) distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions; āmedicines dispensed to the sickā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
dispensed
simple past tense and past participle of dispense
Source: Wiktionary
DISPENSE
Dis*pense", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispensed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispensing.] Etym: [F. dispenser, L. dispensare, intens. of dispendere. See Dispend.]
1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott.
2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct. While you dispense the laws, and guide the state. Dryden.
3. To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.] His sin was dispensed With gold, whereof it was compensed. Gower.
4. To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from. It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance. Macaulay. He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself. Johnson.
Dis*pense", v. i.
1. To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [Obs.] One loving hour For many years of sorrow can dispense. Spenser.
2. To give dispensation. He [the pope] can also dispense in all matters of ecclesiastical law. Addis & Arnold (Cath. Dict. ) To dispense with. (a) To permit the neglect or omission of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attention, etc.; to forego; to part with. (b) To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. [Obs.] "Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery." Milton. (c) To break or go back from, as one's word. [Obs.] Richardson.
Dis*pense", n. Etym: [Cf. F. dispense dispensation. See Dispense, v. t.]
Definition: Dispensation; exemption. [Obs.]
Dis*pense", n. Etym: [OF. despense, F. dƩpense.]
Definition: Expense; profusion; outlay. [Obs.] It was a vault built for great dispense. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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