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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Calefactory \Cal`e*fac"to*ry\, a. [L. calefactorius.] Making hot; producing or communicating heat. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Calefactory \Cal`e*fac"to*ry\, n. 1. (Eccl.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room 2. A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: calefactory adj : serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: {calefactive}, {heating}]
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