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Definition of Calefaction
1. Noun. The property of being warming.
Definition of Calefaction
1. 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.
Definition of Calefaction
1. Noun. The act of warming or heating. ¹
2. Noun. The state or condition of being heated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calefaction
Literary usage of Calefaction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1883)
"Observation may have proved that all solar rays directly produce calefaction;
but it is entirely erroneous to say all calefaction is from solar rays ..."
2. The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine (1844)
"... minute branches in cases of sharp pain under the skin ; c, the cauterisation
or calefaction of them in certain painful affections, as in arthralgia, &c. ..."
3. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"... where the introducing of one contrary form or quality into the subject, is
termed a reiteration, or repetition of the other; calefaction (for example) ..."
4. On Fracture of the Skull Or Cranium by Jacopo Berengario ca Carpi, Levi Robert Lind (1990)
"... whether they are superfluous in calefaction or it does not heat him with a
temperate calefaction then the medicines should be administered according to ..."
5. Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken (1847)
"Both may be developed, or expanded by calefaction, and the latter by diminution of
... If those that are chemically combined be developed by calefaction, ..."
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