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Meaning of 'calefactory' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Calefactory [ a.]
- Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
2 . Calefactory [ n.]
- An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.
- A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with.

Meaning of 'calefactory' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . calefactory [ s]
Meaning (1):
- serving to heat
Example in sentence:
  • a heating pad is calefactory

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