The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
PREPENSELY
Etymology
Adverb
prepensely (comparative more prepensely, superlative most prepensely)
In a premeditated manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*pense"ly, adv.
Definition: In a premeditated manner.
PREPENSE
Pre*pense", v. t. Etym: [Pref. pre + F. penser to think. See Pansy.]
Definition: To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate. [Obs.] Spenser. Sir T. Elyot.
Pre*pense", v. i.
Definition: To deliberate beforehand. [Obs.]
Pre*pense", a. Etym: [See Pansy, and cf. Prepense, v. t.]
Definition: Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense. This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense. Southey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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