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heatingly

heatingly adverb: so as to make or become hot.

Adverb

heatingly (comparative more heatingly, superlative most heatingly)

  1. (archaic) So as to make or become hot.
    • Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms […]1856, Henry William Herbert, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen
    • Some skins are intolerant of grease, and in very active hot eczemas the grease may act heatingly by interfering with escape of secretions and radiation of heat. Pastes which are ointments but contain far more powder, are sometimes superior.1918, The Ophthalmic Yearbook, volume 14, page 167

Forms of heatingly

comparativemore heatingly
superlativemost heatingly

Origin of heatingly

From heating + -ly.

Questions about heatingly

What does heatingly mean?
Heatingly means so as to make or become hot.
What part of speech is heatingly?
Heatingly is an adverb.

Words near heatingly in the dictionary

  1. heating pad
  2. heating surface
  3. heating surfaces
  4. heating through
  5. heating up
  6. heatingly
  7. heatings
  8. heatlabile
  9. heatless
  10. heatlessly
  11. heatlessness

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