sudorificadj.n.
/s(j)uːdəˈrɪfɪk/ A. adj.
1. Promoting or causing perspiration; diaphoretic.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > [adjective] > inducing
diaphoretic1563
diaphoretical1601
sudorific1626
sudoriferous1833
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [adjective] > promoting perspiration
sudorific1626
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > diaphoretic
diaphoretic1563
sudoriferous1598
diaphoretical1601
hydrotical1616
sudorific1626
sudorifical1651
hydrotic1671
hidrotic1728
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §706 A Decoction of Sudorifick Herbs.
1634 Lowe's Chirurg. (ed. 3) v. xii. 153 Decoct on sudoriphicke.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 271 Many things which are diuretick, are likewise sudorifick.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory iii. 570 This oil is stimulant, anti-spasmodic, anodyne, and sudorific.
1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman v. 53 Sudorific toil.
1869 R. T. Claridge Cold-water Cure 203 Sudorific Process.
2. Connected with the secretion and the exudation of sweat; sudoriparous, perspiratory.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > types of gland > [adjective]
pituita1598
pituitary1615
lymphatic1649
conglomerated1656
conglobate1666
conglomerate1666
conglobated1676
lymphic1681
conglobulate1709
sudoriferous1713
sudorific1721
sebaceous1728
trajectory1747
cryptal1754
cryptous1804
muciparous1825
racemose1834
racemiform1837
ganglionary1842
muciferous1842
sudoriparous1851
sebiparous1853
racemous1854
sebiferous1858
perilymphangial1873
lymphadenoid1877
perilymphatic1877
mucigenous1881
pituital1890
tubuloracemosec1900
acinic1903
holocrine1905
merocrine1905
exocrine1911
endocrine1914
endocrinic1914
endocrinous1914
endocrinal1923
apocrine1926
eccrine1931
psychoendocrine1946
acinar1949
nodal1954
mucigenic1965
1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. vii. 184 The sudorifick Pores.
1789 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (rev. ed.) II. 122 Hydroa, or Sudamina, is a triffling eruption from the sudorific glands.
1878 A. M. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 74 During the warmer season, when the sudorific apparatus requires a free capillary circulation.
3. Consisting of sweat. rare.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [adjective] > sweat
sudorous1646
sweaty1734
sudorific1807
1807 S. Smith Wks. (1850) 85 A miraculous image of our Lady of Serdenay, which always sweats—not ordinary sudorific matter—but an oil of great ecclesiastical efficacy.
1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 113 Did you ever..burst out into sudorific exudation like a cold thaw, with the thermometer at zero?
4. Of limestone caves, etc.: That exudes.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of exuding > [adjective] > exuding > of limestone, etc.
sudorific1828
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > emitting > emitting by exudation
oozya1425
weeping1551
sweating1578
sudorific1828
oozing1878
1828 R. Duppa Trav. Italy 142 The steam-baths of Dædalus..consist of several sudorific grottos.
B. n.
a. A medicine or remedy which promotes perspiration; a diaphoretic.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > diaphoretic
sweat1655
diaphoretic1656
sudorific1667
sweater1684
hidrotic1727
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 547 She never swet in her life, nor could it be procur'd by ordinary Sudorificks.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Sudorificks only differ from Diaphoreticks, in the Degree of their Action; the one promoting sensible Perspiration, the other insensible.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 171 This bath becomes the most powerful and certain sudorific known.
1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. ii. iv. 196 Antimony..a well known sudorific in the present practice of physic.
1883 J. Mackenzie Day-dawn in Dark Places 42 They actually rolled the miserable man in the burning sand as a sudorific!
1908 H. H. Johnston G. Grenfell & Congo II. xxii. 557 A treatment of disease by massage or sudorifics.
b. transferred.
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1777 H. Walpole Let. 29 June in Corr. (1965) XXXII. 360 We will keep ourselves warm with hot cockles and blind-man's-buff and other old English sudorifics.
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