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

sudatories plural

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

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sudatories
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sudatory

1590–1600; < Latin sūdātōrius inducing sweat, equivalent to sūdā ( re ) to sweat + -tōrius -tory ¹

Example Sentences

This done the three men went into the sudatory and sat down to sweat, uttering not a word.

From The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 by Matthews, Washington

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

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 Hoffman, Walter James

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.