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sudorific
CIDE DICTIONARY
sudorific, a. [L. sudor sweat (akin to E. sweat) + facere to make.].
Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sudorific, adj. & n.
--adj. (of a drug) causing sweating.
--n. a sudorific drug.
--adj. (of a drug) causing sweating.
--n. a sudorific drug.
Etymology
mod.L sudorificus f. L sudor sweat
THESAURUS
sudorific
ardent, baking, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, clammy, diaphoretic, drenched with sweat, ebullient, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, in a sweat, like a furnace, like an oven, overheated, overwarm, parching, perspiring, perspiry, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, smoking hot, sticky, sudatory, sudoric, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid, wet with sweat, white-hot, wiltedROGET THESAURUS
sudorific
Heat
N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.For further exploring for "sudorific" in Webster Dictionary Online