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.
REFLEXIVES
Noun
reflexives
plural of reflexive
Source: Wiktionary
REFLEXIVE
Re*flex"ive (-v), a.
1. Etym: [Cf. F. réflexif.]
Definition: Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond.
2. Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South.
3. (Gram.)
Definition: Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective.
– Re*flex"ive*ly, adv.
– Re*flex"ive*ness, n.
Re*flex"ive, adv.
Definition: In a reflex manner; reflectively.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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