sudatory
Americanadjective
noun
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med a sudatory agent
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another word for sudatorium
Etymology
Origin of sudatory
1590–1600; < Latin sūdātōrius inducing sweat, equivalent to sūdā ( re ) to sweat + -tōrius -tory 1
Example Sentences
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It serves also as place of assembly and at least at times as sudatory, whence its popular name of sweat-house.
From The Religion of the Indians of California by Kroeber, A. L.
Early on the day of his initiation the candidate returns to the sudatory to await the coming of his preceptor.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Hoffman, Walter James
All shrivelled up as we were by the heat—for we were almost past the sudatory stage—we drank in some refreshment from the scenery.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
Of the many iron stoves, Messrs. Constantine's "Convoluted" stove has been adopted the most frequently, as an eminently practical furnace for the effective heating of the sudatory chambers.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen
On leaving the sudatory chamber, the horse should first be well scraped with the scraper, carefully sponging, or dousing him, if necessary, with warm water.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen
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