Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Heat-producing. Also calorificient, calorifiant, and calorifient.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Physiol.) See calorificient.

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  • adjective Alternative form of calorificient.

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  • adjective producing heat; usually used of foods

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Examples

  • Now starch is the great element, in all farinaceous articles, which is adapted to supply us with calorifacient food.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • The division of food into azotized and non-azotized is no doubt important, but the attempt to show that the first only is plastic or nutritive, while the second is simply calorifacient, or heat-producing, fails entirely in the face of the facts revealed by the study of man in different climates, and of numerous experiments in the feeding of animals.

    Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • The division of food into azotized and non-azotized is no doubt important, but the attempt to show that the first only is plastic or nutritive, while the second is simply calorifacient, or heat-producing, fails entirely in the face of the facts revealed by the study of man in different climates, and of numerous experiments in the feeding of animals.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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