Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Calefactory

Calefactory , adjective

[Latin calefactorius.]

Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

Calefactory , noun

1.
(Ecclesiastical) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.
2.
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.