"sudorific" meaning in English

See sudorific in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌs(j)uːdəˈɹɪfɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌsudəˈɹɪfɪk/ [General-American], /-ɾə-/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sudorific.wav Forms: more sudorific [comparative], most sudorific [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪfɪk Etymology: From New Latin sudorificus, from sūdor (“sweat”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“sweat; to sweat”)) + -ificus (from Proto-Italic *-fakos (suffix forming adjectives that denote bringing or making), ultimately related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”)). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sweyd-}}, {{der|en|NL.|sudorificus}} New Latin sudorificus, {{der|en|ine-pro|*sweyd-||sweat; to sweat}} Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“sweat; to sweat”), {{der|en|itc-pro|*-fakos|pos=suffix forming adjectives that denote bringing or making}} Proto-Italic *-fakos (suffix forming adjectives that denote bringing or making), {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-||to do, put, place}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} sudorific (comparative more sudorific, superlative most sudorific)
  1. In a state of perspiration; covered in sweat; sudoriferous, sweaty. Categories (topical): Bodily fluids Synonyms: asweat [dated]
    Sense id: en-sudorific-en-adj-Ia7nNdz5 Disambiguation of Bodily fluids: 41 32 28 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ific, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 28 23 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ific: 58 23 20 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 58 23 19 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 57 23 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 59 22 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 57 23 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 59 22 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 58 23 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 64 19 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 61 21 18
  2. (chiefly pharmacology) That produces sweating. Categories (topical): Pharmaceutical effects Synonyms: diaphoretic Translations (that produces sweating): причиняващ изпотяване (pričinjavašt izpotjavane) (Bulgarian), sudorifigiva (Ido), sudorífico (Portuguese), sudorífero (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-sudorific-en-adj-6FMgxAyw Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences Disambiguation of 'that produces sweating': 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sudorifick [obsolete]

Noun

IPA: /ˌs(j)uːdəˈɹɪfɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌsudəˈɹɪfɪk/ [General-American], /-ɾə-/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sudorific.wav Forms: sudorifics [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪfɪk Etymology: From New Latin sudorificus, from sūdor (“sweat”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“sweat; to sweat”)) + -ificus (from Proto-Italic *-fakos (suffix forming adjectives that denote bringing or making), ultimately related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”)). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sweyd-}}, {{der|en|NL.|sudorificus}} New Latin sudorificus, {{der|en|ine-pro|*sweyd-||sweat; to sweat}} Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“sweat; to sweat”), {{der|en|itc-pro|*-fakos|pos=suffix forming adjectives that denote bringing or making}} Proto-Italic *-fakos (suffix forming adjectives that denote bringing or making), {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-||to do, put, place}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sudorific (plural sudorifics)
  1. (pharmacology) A medicine that produces sweating. Categories (topical): Pharmaceutical drugs Translations (medicine that produces sweating): ოფლმდენი (oplmdeni) (Georgian), ოფლმდენი საშუალება (oplmdeni sašualeba) (Georgian), ოფლსადენი (oplsadeni) (Georgian), sudorifigivo (Ido), sudorífico [masculine] (Portuguese), sudorífero [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-sudorific-en-noun-EM3oNzLi Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sudorifick [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Fear, the product of guilt, is a true night-plant. Like some of those gigantic fungi the botanists tell of, it springs up in the dark, and in an hour of restless tossing, sudorific, horripilating wretchedness, canopies our bed with a phantom toad-stool of gigantic size. The load that the conscience can jauntily stagger under in the broad light of day, [...] will, in the gloom and silence of the night, wear its bearer to his knees.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Fear, the product of guilt, is a true night-plant. Like some of those gigantic fungi the botanists tell of, it springs up in the dark, and in an hour of restless tossing, sudorific, horripilating wretchedness, canopies our bed with a phantom toad-stool of gigantic size. The load that the conscience can jauntily stagger under in the broad light of day, [...] will, in the gloom and silence of the night, wear its bearer to his knees.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "That the skin is much affected under the sense of great fear, we see in the marvellous and inexplicable manner in which perspiration immediately exudes from it. This exudation is all the more remarkable, as the surface is then cold, and hence the term a cold sweat; whereas, the sudorific glands are properly excited into action when the surface is heated.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "[A]s it was obſerved that acute diſtempers are ſometimes terminated by a critical ſweat, it was concluded that the moſt powerful ſudorifics were the beſt means of accompliſhing this deſirable end. This gave riſe to the deſtructive and fatal practice, which ſoon became univerſal, of adminiſtering heating remedies in diſeaſes of an inflammatory nature: […]",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Fortunately the fever attacked me in the district town at the inn; I sent for the doctor. In half-an-hour the district doctor appeared, a thin, dark-haired man of middle height. He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put on, very deftly slid a five-rouble note up his sleeve, coughing drily and looking away as he did so, and then was getting up to go home, but somehow fell into talk and remained.",
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