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adjective
1.
serving to heat.
noun
2.
a heated parlor or sitting room in a monastery.
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Calefactory
has a plethora of syllables.
So is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Does it mean:
| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells. |
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
Origin:
1530–40; < Late Latin calefactōrius having a warming or heating power, equivalent to Latin calefac(ere) to make warm (see calefacient) + -tōrius -tory1
1530–40; < Late Latin calefactōrius having a warming or heating power, equivalent to Latin calefac(ere) to make warm (see calefacient) + -tōrius -tory1
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