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.
IMMUREMENT
captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
(noun) the state of being imprisoned; “he was held in captivity until he died”; “the imprisonment of captured soldiers”; “his ignominious incarceration in the local jail”; “he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
immurement (countable and uncountable, plural immurements)
Capital punishment by entombing for life.
Source: Wiktionary
Im*mure"ment, n.
Definition: The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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