Sudorific

Quick meaning: Sudorific is an adjective meaning In a state of perspiration; covered in sweat; sudoriferous, sweaty.

Meaning

In a state of perspiration; covered in sweat; sudoriferous, sweaty.

More Meanings

1. (pharmacology) A medicine that produces sweating.
2. (chiefly pharmacology) That produces sweating.

Example Sentences

The fortunes of the Helvetius family [i.e., the family of Johann Friedrich Schweitzer] were established firmly upon the sudorific, expectorant and emetic qualities of the root of ipecacuanha.

The whole of this hill is covered with the wild sage, the salvia pomifera, […] It enters into the materia medica of the modern Greeks, and is taken as tea, and used as a sudorific in feverish cases.

[...] I took my leave of them, & 'ran like a Lamp-lighter', the rest of the way to the Theatre; and in a most violent perspiration, clambered into the Shilling Gallery, where scarcely I cᵈ gain admission, the rest of the House being extremely crowded, wᶜʰ did not diminish the sudorific state of my person.

The treatment of the "Charity [Hôpital de la Charité, Paris]," as administered now, consists in an assemblage of numerous substances endowed with different properties. It is as follows: First day, cassia water; simple sudorific ptisan, purgative clyster in the morning, anodyne clyster in the evening, theriaca one ounce, opium 1 gr.

Word Forms

• sudorifick
• sudorifics

Synonyms for sudorific

Depending on context, synonyms include asweat, diaphoretic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include diaphoretic, sudorifick, sudoriferous, sudatory, sudorous, sweaty.

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