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.
EDICT
decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript
(noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); “a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there”
edict
(noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
edict (plural edicts)
A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
Anagrams
• cited, ticed
Source: Wiktionary
E"dict, n. Etym: [L. edictum, fr. edicere, edictum, to declare, proclaim; e out + dicere to say: cf. F. édit. See Diction.]
Definition: A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as an edict in destiny. Shak. Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued by Henry IV. (A. D. 1598), giving toleration to Protestants. Its revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of French Protestants.
Syn.
– Decree; proclamation; law; ordinance; statute; rule; order; manifesti; command. See Law.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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