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calefactive, a. Now rare.|kælɪˈfæktɪv| [f. L. calefact-, ppl. stem of calefacĕre to warm: see -ive.] Having the tendency to warm; warming.
1576Newton tr. Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 101 The warme and calefactive spirit, which..was infused into the whole world. 1678Hobbes Decameron Wks. 1845 VII. 120 The air..had gotten a calefactive power. 1874B. Bernard S. Lover I. 158 Calefactive depths of Celticism. |