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.
LEX
Proper noun
Lex
(informal) Lexington.
A pet form of the male given name Alexander.
A pet form of the female given names Alexandra, Alexia, and Alexis.
Etymology
Verb
lex (third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed)
(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
Noun
lex (plural lexes)
(linguistics) A specific inflected form of a word; compare lexeme.
Source: Wiktionary
Lex, n.; pl. Leges. Etym: [L. See Legal.]
Definition: Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terræ, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RESTORATION
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