Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hot-air room used for sweat baths.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hot-air bath for producing perspiration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sudatory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hot
room used to inducesweating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The praefurnium also contained the remains of a limestone staircase, almost certainly belonging to an earlier building phase, of which two steps were already exposed, most likely leading to a small circular bath (either a private tub or part of a sudatorium or sweating room).
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Gallic, he causes us to gather an impression of Cesare in the intestinal sudatorium of that eventrated bull, as of one who is at once the hierophant and devotee of a monstrous, foul, and unclean rite of some unspeakable religion -- a rite by comparison with which the Black Mass of the Abbé Gribourg becomes a sweet and wholesome thing.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912
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In this, with a suggestive cleverness entirely Gallic, he causes us to gather an impression of Cesare in the intestinal sudatorium of that eventrated bull, as of one who is at once the hierophant and devotee of a monstrous, foul, and unclean rite of some unspeakable religion -- a rite by comparison with which the Black Mass of the Abbé Gribourg becomes a sweet and wholesome thing.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912
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In a less intense degree the same cooling process is carried on over the whole surface of a person, when in the hot room, or _sudatorium_, of the Turkish bath.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Turkish hot-rooms, or _sudatorium_, of the Invalids 'Hotel and Surgical
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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In the first, when the boiling element dashes against the rock, it is hot enough to make a natural sudatorium; then it cools sufficiently for the tepidarium; and at last, quite cold, flows out into a fish-pond like that of Nero.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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This he promptly proceeded to do, and the result was, that an extensive hypocaust apartment was brought to light, with baths, sudatorium, dressing-room, and a number of tile pillars -- all forming parts of a Roman floor -- sufficiently perfect to show the manner in which the building had been constructed and used.
The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867
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_sudatorium_, and the _tepidarium_, for the cold, the hot, the sweating or vapor, and the warm baths.
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a _sudatorium_ if the floors had not been 2ft. 6in. lower than the adjoining apartment.
The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath Charles E. Davis
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