Calefaction: Definition and part of speech

Calefaction

  1. n. The state of being heated.
  2. n. The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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