Meaning: warming and heating, or being warmed and heated.
Usefulness: 1
Logofascination: 1 (Rabelais has the French échauffer, but Sir Thomas uses the English calefaction, which is from the same Latin root. Perhaps his coinages occurred where he felt he needed an equivalent to the French he was translating.)
Usefulness: 1
Logofascination: 1 (Rabelais has the French échauffer, but Sir Thomas uses the English calefaction, which is from the same Latin root. Perhaps his coinages occurred where he felt he needed an equivalent to the French he was translating.)