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Definition of Calefactory
1. Adjective. Serving to heat. "A heating pad is calefactory"
Definition of Calefactory
1. a. Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
2. n. An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.
Definition of Calefactory
1. Adjective. warming ¹
2. Noun. A room in a monastery that was kept warm and used as a sitting room ¹
3. Noun. A warming pan, or similar device used by a priest to warm his hands ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calefactory
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calefactory
Literary usage of Calefactory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"An officer, called the master of the common house, who provided a fire in the
calefactory and certain luxuries on festivals. Communion, Holy. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"House of Novices—l.с ha pel; 2. refectory; 3. calefactory; 4. dormitory ; 5.
master's ... Above the calefactory ¡s the " dormitory " opening into the south ..."
3. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1885)
"West of the calefactory was the refectory, to the N of which was the cloister court.
... The calefactory has a vaulted roof supported by two pillars, ..."
4. Balmerino and Its Abbey: A Parish History with Notices of the Adjacent District by James Campbell (1899)
"He supposes it to have been identical with the kitchen; but the kitchen and the
calefactory are expressly mentioned in the Book of Usages as separate ..."
5. History of the Religious House of Pluscardyn Convent of the Vale of Saint by Simeon Ross Macphail (1881)
"The plan shows a cross wall terminating the Refectory on the East, at some distance
from the calefactory. At this point no doubt the Kitchen began, ..."
6. Sessional Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects by Royal Institute of British Architects (1876)
"THE calefactory 4 is entered by a round-headed doorway in the south wall of the
slype. ... The monks came to the calefactory to grease their boots, ..."
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