One dialogue, or Colloquye of Erasmus (entituled Diuersoria). Erasmus Desiderius

(OED). This is an older sense than the heating apparatus itself.

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"after a niuer facion": if this is correctly read, the "niuer" does not seem to appear in the OED, unless it be a form of "never" used as an adjective. The Latin is aegre et parce "reluctantly and sparingly".