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.
REFECTION
refection
(noun) a light meal or repast
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
refection (countable and uncountable, plural refections)
Mental or spiritual refreshment.
Physical refreshment, especially with food or drink.
A meal, especially a light meal.
Synonym: repast
Source: Wiktionary
Re*fec"tion (r*fk"shn), n. Etym: [L. refectio: cf. F. réfection. See Refect, Fact.]
Definition: Refreshment after hunger or fatique; a repast; a lunch. [His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. Spenser. Those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods. Curran.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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