sudatory
Americanadjective
noun
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med a sudatory agent
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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
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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
A generally dark and heavy tone of colouring is very oppressive in a sudatory chamber.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen
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
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
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.
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