Crossword-Solution: CALEFACTORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Calefactory | a. | Making hot; producing or communicating heat. |
| Calefactory | n. | An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room. |
| Calefactory | 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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Sentences with CALEFACTORY (5)
There were the infirmary and the hospital; the calefactory or warming apparatus, the recreation hall and the winter hall, the locutorium and the common hall, and I know not what besides.
From the similarity of arrangement in the buildings of religious houses, however, we can, with great certainty, assign the sites for the various parts--the dormitory over the cellarage, to the west of the cloister garth; the refectory to south of it; the calefactory, chapter-house, slype, to the east; and the prior's lodgings to the south of the choir, forming the lesser garth; the barns, bakery, and brew-house to the south-west of the church, near the porter's lodge and gatehouse.
Leading out of it is the ancient "calefactory," where the fire for the censers and thuribles was preserved.
This point settled, I went to lunch with my friend Hadow in his rooms at Worcester, the former calefactory or recreation-room (so he said) of {143} our whilom Benedictine students, and looking out on a long narrow raised garden which there is reason to believe was once the monastic bowling-green.
The church formed the first or northern side (for in temperate and cold climates the other buildings, as they lay to the south, were sheltered by the church.) The sacristy, chapter-house, and other halls were on the east; the calefactory, refectory, and kitchen on the south; and the _Domus Conversorum_ completed the square on the west.