sudatory

American  

[soo-duh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈsu dəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

adjective

1. pertaining to or causing sweating.

2. pertaining to a sudatorium.

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noun

plural

sudatories

1. sudatorium.

sudatory British  

/ ˈsjuːdətərɪ, -trɪ /

adjective

1. relating to or producing sweating; sudorific

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noun

1. med a sudatory agent

2. 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

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

There is no sudatory, no dormitory, no dressing-room, no couch.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

The shrubbery around the sudatory is in many localities tied up with willow wisps and ropes.

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

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.

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