Definition of Sudorific

1. Noun. A medicine that causes or increases sweating.

Exact synonyms: Sudatory
Generic synonyms: Medicament, Medication, Medicinal Drug, Medicine

2. Adjective. Inducing perspiration.
Exact synonyms: Diaphoretic
Partainyms: Diaphoresis, Sudation
Derivative terms: Diaphoresis, Diaphoretic

Definition of Sudorific

1. a. Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs.

Definition of Sudorific

1. Adjective. That produces sweat ¹

2. Noun. (medicine) Any medicine that produces sweating ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sudorific

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sudorific

suddenties
suddenty
suddenwoven
sudder
sudders
sudds
sudoite
sudoku
sudokuist
sudokuists
sudokus
sudor
sudoral
sudoriferous
sudoriferous gland
sudorific (current term)
sudorifick
sudorifics
sudoriparous
sudoriparous glands
sudorous
sudors
sudovikovite
sudra
suds
suds up
sudsed
sudsed up
sudser
sudsers

Literary usage of Sudorific

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical Notes and Reflections by Henry Holland (1857)
"ON sudorific MEDICINES. IT must have occurred to the observation of most ... In their employment of sudorific remedies, physicians at all times have ..."

2. Arthur Young's Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 by Arthur Young, Matilda Betham-Edwards (1906)
"I went early to bed, washed down a dose of antimonial powders, which proved sudorific enough to let me prosecute my journey.—23 miles. The 27th. Cherbourg. ..."

3. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1863)
"... respectively, entering the Human Body through the sudorific Ducts. By Mr. HJ CARTER. (Transactions of the Medical and Physiological Society of Bombay. ..."

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