Definition of "calorifacient" []

• Alternative form of calorificient. (adjective)

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