Definition of Calefactories

1. calefactory [n] - See also: calefactory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calefactories

calderites
calderonite
caldesmon
caldolase
caldron
caldrons
calean
caleche
caleches
caledonite
calefacient
calefacients
calefaction
calefactions
calefactive
calefactories (current term)
calefactory
calefie
calefied
calefies
calefy
calefying
caleidoscope
calelectrins
calembour
calembours
calendal
calendar
calendar call
calendar calls

Literary usage of Calefactories

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the Surtees Society by Surtees Society (1903)
"... warming the water for washing the altars and for the washing of feet at the Maundy, for heating the " pomes " or calefactories used to warm the priests' ..."

2. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1855)
"The cloister has round-headed arches, but breaks into pointed at the angles. The domestic buildings are of brick, vaulted with iron ; calefactories ..."

3. History of the County of Fife: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by John M. Leighton, Joseph Swan, James Stewart (1840)
"... prior during the time of bishop Thomas Stewart, furnished, according to the same authority, the monastery " with new granaries, mills, calefactories, ..."

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