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caloric (n.)
hypothetical fluid in a now-discarded model of heat exchange, 1792, from French
calorique
, coined in this sense by Lavoisier, from Latin
calorem
"heat" (nominative
calor
; see
calorie
). The adjective is recorded from 1865.
