| a. | 1. | Making hot; producing or communicating heat. |
| 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. |
| Adj. | 1. | calefactory - serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" Synonyms: calefactive, heating |
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