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.
proselyte
(noun) a new convert; especially a gentile converted to Judaism
Source: WordNet® 3.1
proselyte (plural proselytes)
One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism.
proselyte (third-person singular simple present proselytes, present participle proselyting, simple past and past participle proselyted)
(transitive) To proselytize.
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Source: Wiktionary
Pros"e*lyte, n. Etym: [OE. proselite, OF. proselite, F. proselytus, Gr.
Definition: A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte. Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained proselyte he makes. Cowper.
Syn.
– See Convert.
Pros"e*lyte, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Proselyted; p. pr. & vb. n. Proselyting.]
Definition: To convert to some religion, opinion, or system; to bring over. Dr. H. More.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 March 2025
(adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; “suspended matter such as silt or mud...”; “dust particles suspended in the air”; “droplets in suspension in a gas”
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.