sudatory, a. and n.
(ˈs(j)uːdətərɪ)
Also 6 -orye.
[ad. L. sūdātōrius, f. sūdāt-, sūdāre to sweat: see -ory. Cf. F. sudatoire, It., Sp. sudatorio.]
A. adj. Producing, accompanied by, or connected with sweating. rare.
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 51/1 Those which have passede throughe the Sudatorye regione. 1599 ― tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 157/2 Make therof a sudatorye bath. 1656 Blount Glossogr. 1847 Blackw. Mag. LXI. 737 All shrivelled up as we were by the heat—for we were almost past the sudatory stage. 1861 Illustr. Lond. News 5 Jan. 10/1 Turkish baths. These sudatory institutions..get a man's extra flesh down. 1911 J. Ward Roman Era SBrit. v. 94 It is usual to have..two or more sudatory rooms at different temperatures. |
B. n.
1. = sudatorium.
| 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 289 This Sudatory is entred by a long narrow passage hewne into the rock. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 8 Feb. 1645, Neere to this cave are the natural stoves of St. Germain, of the nature of sudatories. Ibid., These sudatories are much in request for many infirmityes. 1753 Scots Mag. Aug. 418/2 This antique piece appears to be a floor of a Roman sudatory. 1840 Hodgson Hist. Northumb. III. ii. 319/2 This seems to have been the principal laconicum, caldarium, vapour room, or sudatory. 1841 Catlin N. Amer. Ind. xiii. I. 97 Their vapour baths, or sudatories, of which each village has several. 1884 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 321 His house..having baths and sudatories. |
| fig. 1824–9 Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1853 I. 340/2 We rush out of the sudatory of Byron to roll in the snow of Wordsworth. |
¶ 2. Misused for sudary 1.
| 1828 De Quincey Toilette of Heb. Lady Wks. 1859 XII. 140 The girdle..continued to be the appropriate depository for the napkin..or sudatory. |