a. and sb. Also 6 -orye. [ad. L. sūdātorius, 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., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 51/1. Those which have passede throughe the Sudatorye regione. Ibid. (1599), trans. 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 in Brit., v. 94. It is usual to have … two or more sudatory rooms at diferent temperatures.
B. sb. 1. = SUDATORIOM.
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.
