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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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 Robert Owen Allsop
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 Walter James Hoffman
The sudatory is erected about 100 yards due east of the main entrance of the Midē´wigân, and is of the same size and for the same purpose as that for the second degree.
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 Walter James Hoffman
There is no sudatory, no dormitory, no dressing-room, no couch.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
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
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
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
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