单词 | calefactory |
释义 | calefactoryadj.n. A. adj. Adapted for or tending to warming. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > [adjective] warmingc1450 calefactive1576 heating1591 excalfactory1601 excalfactive1611 fomentary1618 inflaming1709 calefactory1713 1713 J. Puckle Club (ed. 3) 31 Love, like Sun Beams,..contracted to one Object, is fervent and calefactory. 1848 M. W. Savage Bachelor of Albany viii. 78 Calefactory arrangements and thermal comforts. B. n. 1. The room in a monastery where the inmates warmed themselves. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > parts of monastery > [noun] > calefactory common housec1593 calefactory1681 1681 Blount's Glossographia (ed. 5) Califactory, is a room in a Monastery, with one or more fires in it, where the Religious persons warm themselves, after they come from Matins. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 73 The locutorium, calefactory, and conversation room. 1844 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages 406 Warmed by hot air from the stove in the calefactory. 2. A warming-pan; the ball of precious metal containing hot water, on which the priest warmed his hands when administering the eucharist in cold weather; otherwise called the pome. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > calefactory > [noun] pomec1440 calefactory1536 1536 Inv. Lincoln Cathedral in Monasticon Anglic. VIII. 1281 A calefactory, silver and gilt, with leaves graven, weighing nine ounces and half. 1536 Reg. Riches Cathedral of Sarum in E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses (1771) 198 A Fat of Silver for holy water..a calefactory, silver and gilt with divers Scriptures. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > [noun] > heating medicine calefactory1657 calefacient1661 thermantic1706 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. v, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ee Many calefactories..as Pepper, Bartram, Bitumen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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