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.
SPIRITUOUS
spirituous, spiritous
(adjective) containing or of the nature of alcohol; “spiritous beverages”; “spirituous liquors”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
spirituous (comparative more spirituous, superlative most spirituous)
Of, pertaining to, containing, or made using alcohol
(of an alcoholic drink) Distilled
Synonyms
• spiritous
Source: Wiktionary
Spir"it*u*ous, a. Etym: [Cf. (for sense 2) F. spiritueux. Cf. Spiritous.]
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure.
2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic (esp. distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors.
3. Lively; gay; vivid; airy. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton. The mind of man is of that spirituous, stirring nature, that it is perpetually at work. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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