CALORIC

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 1

adj. and n. Ka2l-o2r'i2k. Lat, caloric us (adj.), caloricum (n.). Fr., calorique. Ger., colorisch (adj.). Warmest off (n.). It., calorico. Sp., calorico. Pertaining to or dependent on heat; as a n., heat (as formerly used, the supposititious imponderable substance supposed to be contained in all warm bodies and by its emi ion from them to produce the phenomena of heat). [B.] [s. 34]