calorically

Variant of caloric

noun

  1. an imagined substance to which the phenomena of burning and oxidation were formerly attributed
  2. Archaic heat

Origin: Fr calorique < L calor: see calorie

adjective

  1. of heat
  2. of or pertaining to calories

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