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Meaning of "calefacient" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CALEFACIENT

From Latin calefaciēns, from calefacere to heat.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CALEFACIENT

calefacient  [ˌkælɪˈfeɪʃənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CALEFACIENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Calefacient can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CALEFACIENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of calefacient in the English dictionary

The definition of calefacient in the dictionary is causing warmth. Other definition of calefacient is an agent that warms, such as a mustard plaster.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CALEFACIENT


abortifacient
əˌbɔːtɪˈfeɪʃənt
absorbefacient
əbˌsɔːbɪˈfeɪʃənt
coefficient
ˌkəʊɪˈfɪʃənt
deficient
dɪˈfɪʃənt
delirifacient
dɪˌlɪrɪˈfeɪʃənt
efficient
ɪˈfɪʃənt
febrifacient
ˌfɛbrɪˈfeɪʃənt
impatient
ɪmˈpeɪʃənt
inpatient
ˈɪnˌpeɪʃənt
insufficient
ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənt
liquefacient
ˌlɪkwɪˈfeɪʃənt
omnipatient
ˌɒmnɪˈpeɪʃənt
outpatient
ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃənt
parturifacient
pɑːˌtjʊərɪˈfeɪʃənt
patient
ˈpeɪʃənt
putrefacient
ˌpjuːtrɪˈfeɪʃənt
rubefacient
ˌruːbɪˈfeɪʃənt
somnifacient
ˌsɒmnɪˈfeɪʃənt
sorbefacient
ˌsɔːbɪˈfeɪʃənt
sufficient
səˈfɪʃənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CALEFACIENT

calefaction
calefactive
calefactor
calefactories
calefactory
calefy
calembour
calendal
calendar
calendar day
calendar month
calendar year
calendarer
calendarisation
calendarist
calendarization
calendarize
calender
calenderer

WORDS THAT END LIKE CALEFACIENT

ancient
binomial coefficient
client
conscient
correlation coefficient
diffusion coefficient
drag coefficient
energy-efficient
fuel-efficient
immunodeficient
inconscient
inefficient
omniscient
partition coefficient
Pearson´s correlation coefficient
Pearson´s product moment correlation coefficient
perficient
permeability coefficient
prescient
scient
self-sufficient

Synonyms and antonyms of calefacient in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «calefacient» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CALEFACIENT

Find out the translation of calefacient to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of calefacient from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «calefacient» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

变暖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sustancia calentadora
570 millions of speakers

English

calefacient
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

calefacient
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مدفئ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

calefacient
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

calefacient
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

calefacient
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

calefacient
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Calefacient
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

calefacient
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

calefacient
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

calefacient
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Calefacient
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

calefacient
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சூடு உண்டாக்குகிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्राणघातक शस्त्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ısıtan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

calefacient
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

calefacient
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

calefacient
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

calefacient
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

calefacient
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

calefacient
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

calefacient
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

calefacient
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of calefacient

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CALEFACIENT»

The term «calefacient» is used very little and occupies the 152.973 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CALEFACIENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «calefacient» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «calefacient» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about calefacient

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CALEFACIENT»

Discover the use of calefacient in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to calefacient and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Seven Books of Paulus Ægineta
sulphureous bath if convenient ; rubbing the affected parts with calefacient ointments, or applying heated bricks to them; purging with aloes, scammony, and the like ; using the hip-bath made with the decoctions of parsley and anise, common ...
Paulus (Aegineta.), 1844
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The Seven Books of Paulus Aegineta: Translated from the ...
In general, he says, they are rather calefacient than refrigerant; some, however, are refrigerant, and are used as applications to the joints in gout. A few are not only calefacient but also epispastic. He gives prescriptions for 35 malagmata.
Aegineta Paulus, 1847
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Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty
Foster received better reviews than Claudette, whom Brooks Atkinson described as “calefacient,” although he felt she played the songwriter's wife “self- consciously.” Foster, on the other hand, was “ingratiating” and acted the songwriter ...
Bernard F. Dick, 2008
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The seven books
In general, he says, they are rather calefacient than refrigerant; some, however, are refrigerant, and are used as applications to the joints in gout. A few are not only calefacient but also epispastic. He gives prescriptions for 35 malagmata.
Paulus (Aegineta), 1847
5
The stock-feeders' manual
Butter Lump Sugar 20-7 3-4 315 315 6-4 2112 25-6 3i-8 i-8 319 These figures show the relative calefacient, or heat-producing powers of the different foods named outside the body; but there is some doubt as to their having the same relative ...
sir Charles Alexander Cameron, 1868
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The Medical Works of Paulus Aegineta, the Greek Physician: ...
They are nearly such as our author recommends, namely, attenuant food ; avoiding the common bath, which does no good, but using the sulphureous bath, if convenient ; rubbing the affected parts with calefacient ointments, or applying ...
Paulus (Aegineta.), Francis Adams, 1834
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Lectures on Inflammation: Exhibiting a View of the General ...
One of these has for its object to alleviate the symptoms of burns, by the application of substances which produce a cooling or refrigerant effect, the other to heal burns by calefacient or stimulating substances. Whether, as has often been ...
John Thomson, 1831
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The Elements of materia medica and therapeutics
Exposure to the rays of a common fire is resorted to, as a stimulant and calefacient, in old paralytic and other cases attended with coldness and blueness of the extremities, and with other symptoms of insufficient circulation of the blood.
Jonathan Pereira, 1852
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The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ...
quibus omni studio atque industriai excludi debent) sed post vomitus alvique dejectiones, &c.” Nicander's particular remedies are mostly of a calefacient nature, such as birthwort, alkanet, and the theriac of vipers, which appears to have been ...
10
Lexicon Pharmaceuticum: Or a Pharmaceutical Dictionary, ...
Emplastrum Attrahens. Drawing Plaster. The Emplastrum Cera. EMPLASTRUM CALEFACIENS. D. Calefacient Plaster. Take of plaster of Spanish Fly, one part; burgundy pitch, seven parts; melt together, and form into a plaster. A calefacient ...
Thomas Castle, 1828

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« EDUCALINGO. Calefacient [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/calefacient>. May 2024 ».
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