sudatory
Americanadjective
noun
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med a sudatory agent
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another word for sudatorium
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Etymology
Origin of sudatory
1590–1600; < Latin sūdātōrius inducing sweat, equivalent to sūdā ( re ) to sweat + -tōrius -tory 1
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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.
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
Glaucus turned, and recognized Diomed, though not without some difficulty, so red and so inflamed were the good man's cheeks by the sudatory and the scraping he had so lately undergone.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
There exist, at the present time, scores of baths where the odours of the sudatory chambers are nauseating.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen
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
To the right of the great bath is a fine stepped circular bath, and beyond this again are sudatories.
From Somerset by Wade, G. W.
The sudatories of the Oregonians have no analogy with the estufas of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, as far as their construction is concerned.
From Illustration Of The Method Of Recording Indian Languages From the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution by Gatschet, Albert Samuel
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