Fwd: calorifacient: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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From: Dictionary.com <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2013/12/9
Subject: calorifacient: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Monday, December 9, 2013 calorifacient \kuh-lawr-uh-FEY-shuhnt, -lor-, kal-er-uh-\, adjective: (of foods) producing heat. 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... -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science," 1861 It has been attempted on the basis of their supposed physiological destination, and thus they were divided into the histogenetic and the calorifacient substances; the one going, as was imagined, solely to the formation of tissue, and the other entirely to maintain the heat of the body. -- William Alexander Hammond, A Treatise on Hygiene, 1863 Calorifacient comes from the Latin calōrifacĕre meaning "to make heat." It entered English in the mid-1800s. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Word Watch 2013: -splain The term mansplaining received the high honor of being nominated as one of the "most creative" new words at the American Dialect Society 2012 Word of the Year vote. In addition to being creative, this term, particularly the -splaining part, has proven to be incredibly robust and useful as a combining form in 2013, and... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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