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A man's own act and deed; particularly:

The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. Bacon.

Something done before another act. [Obs.]

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.

A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.

accustomed; habituation. [Obs.] Custom and studies efform the soul like wax, and by assuefaction introduce a nature. Jer. Taylor.

The act of conferring a benefit. Johnson.

One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.

A woman who confers a benefit. His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper.

The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.

See Calefactory. [R.]

A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.

Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

Cineration; reduction to ashes. [Obs.]

f different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.

ns. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. Addison.