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.
WITCHERY
witchcraft, witchery
(noun) the art of sorcery
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
witchery (countable and uncountable, plural witcheries)
(uncountable) Witchcraft.
(countable) An act of witchcraft.
(uncountable, figuratively) Allure, charm, magic.
Synonyms
• witchdom
Source: Wiktionary
Witch"er*y, n; pl. Witcheries (.
1. Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft. Great Comus, Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries. Milton. A woman infamous . . . for witcheries. Sir W. Scott.
2. Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment. He never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky. Wordsworth. The dear, dear witchery of song. Bryant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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