sudorific
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of sudorific
1620–30; < New Latin sūdōrificus, equivalent to Latin sūdōr-, stem of sūdor sweat ( see sudoriferous) + -i- -i- + -ficus -fic
Example Sentences
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Many baths are rendered quite repulsive by what I may perhaps term the "sudorific smell" that assails the nostrils of the visitor entering the vestibule.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop
Infusion of Digitalis repeated, and after the water was carried off, Dover's powder was tried as a sudorific.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
They are slightly sudorific and diuretic, and apt to occasion in some patients headache of short duration, directly after they are taken.
From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by J. H. Holdsworth
An infusion of the leaves is stimulating, sudorific, tonic, and beneficial in colds and chills.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
Rafinesque.—Powerful anti-spasmodic, expectorant, incisive, vermifuge, menagogue, sudorific, etc.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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