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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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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
There is no sudatory, no dormitory, no dressing-room, no couch.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
A generally dark and heavy tone of colouring is very oppressive in a sudatory chamber.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop
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 Albert Samuel Gatschet
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 Robert Owen Allsop
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 Albert Samuel Gatschet
To the right of the great bath is a fine stepped circular bath, and beyond this again are sudatories.
From Somerset by G. W. Wade
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