the inhabitant of a cottage, an appellation given to divers saints on account of their long residence in some hut, by way of mortification. The word is formed from καλύπτω, τικο, I cover; whence καλύβη, a little cot.—The Romish church commemorates St John the calybites on the 15th of December.

CALYCANTHEMÆ, in botany, an order of plants in the Fragmenta methodi naturalis of Linnaeus, in which are the following genera, viz. epilobium, cænotha, justicia, ludwigia, oldenlandia, infranda, &c. See Botany, sect. vi. 17.