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.
EPICAL
epic, epical
(adjective) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; “epic tradition”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
epical (comparative more epical, superlative most epical)
(now rare) Of or pertaining to epic literature; epic, grandiose.
Noun
epical (plural epicals)
(literature) Any book containing 2 or more epics.
(poetry) In epic poetry, a lengthy, revered narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.
Anagrams
• Plaice, piacle, plaice, plicae
Source: Wiktionary
Ep"ic*al (, a.
Definition: Epic.
– Ep"ic*al*ly, adv. Poems which have an epical character. Brande & C. His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical). Lowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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