Monday, May 7, 2012

Word of the Day for Monday, May 7, 2012

sudorific \soo-duh-RIF-ik\, adjective:

1. Causing sweat.
2. Sudoriparous.

noun:
1. A sudorific agent.

    Having thrown him into a cold sweat by his spiritual sudorific, he attacks him with his material remedies, which are often quite as unpalatable.
    -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Medical Essays, 1842-1882

    Wracked by such sudorific thoughts, he tossed noisily about, maddened, aching.
    -- Angela Huth, South of the Lights

    Every sudorific hitherto employed had failed to produce this result upon a skin which horrible diseases had left impervious.
    -- Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Pons

Sudorific comes from the Latin word sūdor meaning "sweat." The word "sweat" is unrelated and comes from the Old English, swote.
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