Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Sudorific.
- n. See sudatorium.
- n. See sudorific.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which is sudorific; a sweat-bath; a sudatorium; a diaphoretic.
- Sweating or perspiring.
- Promoting or inducing perspiration; sudorific; diaphoretic.
Wiktionary
- n. A sudatorium; a hot room used to induce sweating.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Sweating; perspiring.
- n. A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths
- n. a medicine that causes or increases sweating
Etymologies
- Latin sūdātōrium, sudatorium, and sūdātōrius, inducing sweat; see sudatorium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
“They contained chambers for cold, hot, tepid, sudatory, and swimming baths; dressing-rooms and gymnasia; museums and libraries; covered colonnades for lounging and conversation, extensive grounds filled with statues and traversed by pleasant walks; and every other adjunct that could add to the sense of luxury and relaxation.”
“This done the three men went into the sudatory and sat down to sweat, uttering not a word.”
“When the four vapor baths have been taken by the candidate, and the eve of the ceremony has arrived, he remains in the sudatory longer than usual so as not to come in contact with the large crowd of visitors who have arrived upon the scene.”
“Upon the following day, that being the one immediately preceding the day of ceremony, the candidate again repairs to the sudatory to take a last vapor bath, after the completion of which he awaits the coming of his preceptor for final conversation and communion with man´idōs respecting the step he is prepared to take upon the morrow.”
“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.”
“On the evening of the fifth day he repairs to the sudatory or sweat-lodge, which has, in the meantime, been built east of the sacred inclosure, and when seated within he is supplied with water which he keeps for making vapor by pouring it upon heated stones introduced for the purpose by assistants upon the outside.”
“The candidate, at the suggestion of the Midē´ priest, then prepares to leave the sudatory, gathers up the tobacco, and as he slowly advances toward the Midē´ inclosure his attendants fall into the procession according to their office.”
“Early on the morning of the day of the ceremonies the candidate goes to the sudatory where he first awaits the coming of his preceptor and later the arrival of the Midē´ priests by whom he is escorted to the”
“Early on the day of his initiation the candidate returns to the sudatory to await the coming of his preceptor.”
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