Calefactory

[kæli'fæktәri]

(adj.) serving to heat; 'a heating pad is calefactory' .

Edited by Anselm--From WordNet

(a.) Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

(n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.

(n.) 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.

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