| 单词 |
calefaction |
| 释义 |
calefaction|kælɪˈfækʃən|
Also 6 cali-, 7 calfaction, callifaction. Now rare.
[ad. L. calefactiōn-em, n. of action f. calefacĕre.]
1. Making warm (lit. and fig.); warming, heating.
1547Boorde Brev. Health lxxiii. 22 It doth signifye califaction of the lyver. 1574Newton Health Mag. 4 Exercise by motion and calefaction. 1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1821) 35 Ardent are other some because influenced by callifaction. c1750Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 VI. 98 The blood is returned again to the heart for a fresh calefaction. 1852J. H. Newman Scope Univ. Educ. 10 The science of calefaction and ventilation is reserved for the north.
2. Heated condition.
1634R. H. Salerne Regim. 196 The Calefaction or boyling ceaseth not by Blood-letting. 1844Blackw. Mag. 509 [He] paused after his labours in a state of extreme calefaction.
†3. Med. (See quot.) Obs.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 268 Calfaction is a..preparing simple and compound medicaments, not by boyling or burning, but by the moderate heat of the Sun, fire, fimus equinus, vel ejus vicarius. |
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