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.
WITE
Etymology 1
Verb
wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)
(chiefly, Scotland) To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse
To reproach, censure, mulct
To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect
Etymology 2
Noun
wite (plural wites)
(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt.
Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.
Etymology 3
Verb
wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)
(obsolete or poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
Source: Wiktionary
Wite, v. t. Etym: [AS. witan; akin to D. wijten, G. verweisen, Icel. vita to mulct, and E. wit; cf. AS. witan to see, L. animadvertere to observe, to punish. Wit, v.]
Definition: To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser. Though that I be jealous, wite me not. Chaucer. There if that I misspeak or say, Wite it the ale of Southwark, I you pray. Chaucer.
Wite, n. Etym: [AS. wite punishment. Wite, v.]
Definition: Blame; reproach. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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