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.
LEGISLATIVELY
legislatively
(adverb) by legislation; “legislatively determined”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
legislatively (not comparable)
By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
The base was legislatively closed: basically they passed a law saying to do it.
Source: Wiktionary
Leg"is*la*tive*ly, adv.
Definition: In a legislative manner.
LEGISLATIVE
Leg"is*la*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. législatij.]
1. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards called the Parliament. Hume.
2. Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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