calefaction

See also: caléfaction

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calefactiō, calefactiōnem.

Noun

calefaction (countable and uncountable, plural calefactions)

  1. The act of warming or heating.
  2. The state or condition of being heated.

Quotations
  • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 17:
    What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed? The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction.

References
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calefactiō, calefactiōnem.

Noun

calefaction f (oblique plural calefactions, nominative singular calefaction, nominative plural calefactions)

  1. calefaction (production of heat)

Descendants
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