Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or operation of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by the communication of heat from other bodies.
- noun The state of being heated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun The state of being heated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
warming orheating . - noun The state or condition of being heated.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being warming
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Examples
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Charleton appeals to the explanation of such phenomena as rarefaction and condensation, the differences in "degrees of Gravity" of bodies, and the numerous ways in which bodies can interpenetrate at the micro-level in terms of solubility, absorption, calefaction, and diverse chemical reactions.
Newton's Views on Space, Time, and Motion Rynasiewicz, Robert 2004
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“I await your response, youth,” said the second of the Priests, “or else your calefaction.”
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000
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"I await your response, youth," said the second of the Priests, "or else your calefaction."
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983
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For, though fire by heating, both liquefies and rarefies, there are not two powers in fire, one of liquefaction, the other of rarefaction: and fire produces all such actions by its own power of calefaction.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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When the ingenious musician withdrew the bull's horn from his mouth, and paused after his labours in a state of extreme calefaction, murmurs of applause ran all round the room.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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They have their cold days, but only now and then, and they do not deem it worth their while to provide against them: the science of calefaction is reserved for the north.
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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They have, indeed, bleak and piercing blasts; they have chill and pouring rain, but only now and then, for a day or a week; they bear the inconvenience as they best may, but they have not made it an art to repel it; it is not worth their while; the science of calefaction and ventilation is reserved for the north.
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845
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(mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).
Ulysses 2003
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The Anglican Church, where you can’t get no calefaction:
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