Word Meanings - SUDORIFIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs. -- n.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• SWEATY
  1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. 2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift. 3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge." Prior.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• SWEATILY
  In a sweaty manner.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• SWEATER
  1. One who sweats. 2. One who, or that which, causes to sweat; as: A sudorific. A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes. An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
• CAUSIDICAL
  Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• SUDORIFIC
  Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs. -- n.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• SWEATING
  a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. -- Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. -- Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• CAUSAL
  Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative. Causal propositions are where two propositions are joined by causal words. Watts.
• SWEAT
  akin to OFries. & OS. swet, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, 1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. Shak. 2. Fig.: To perspire in toil;
• SWEATINESS
  Quality or state of being sweaty.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• ENCAUSTIC
  Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• EREMACAUSIS
  A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
• CATACAUSTIC
  Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.
• GALVANOCAUSTIC
  Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.
• UNSWEAT
  To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil. Milton.
• DIACAUSTIC
  Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.