sudorific

American  

[soo-duh-rif-ik] / ˌsu dəˈrɪf ɪk /

adjective

1. causing sweat; diaphoretic.

2. sudoriparous.

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noun

1. a sudorific agent.

sudorific British  

/ ˌsjuːdəˈrɪfɪk /

adjective

1. producing or causing sweating; sudatory

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noun

1. a sudorific agent

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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sudorific

Boxall very conscientiously recommended a sudorific, and charged him to keep himself well covered up during the night, and on no account to leave his couch.

From Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures by Riou, Edouard

Each set of rooms for the ladies' and gentlemen's Turkish baths comprises undressing room and cooling room, two sudorific chambers, shampooing room, douche room with cold plunge bath, and a separate chamber with warm plunge.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen

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 Holdsworth, J. H.

I ordered them a sudorific Drink, which being succeeded by the Eruption, or by Sweating, they found themselves sensibly relieved.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

The nitrogenous components become oxidised, and urea ultimately formed, which being very soluble is freely excreted by the sudorific glands p. 23in the perspiration, and by the kidneys in the urine. 

From Buxton and its Medicinal Waters by Gifford-Bennet, Robert Ottiwell