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.
HIERARCH
archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate
(noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary
hierarch
(noun) a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hierarch (plural hierarches)
(religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
(Eastern Orthodoxy) A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.
Synonyms
• ordinary
Source: Wiktionary
Hi"er*arch, n. Etym: [LL. hierarcha, Gr. ishiras vigorous, fresh, blooming) + hiérarque.]
Definition: One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FATIGUE
(noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; “he was suffering from museum fatigue”; “after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue”; “the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue”; “political fatigue”
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