Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sweat or perspiration; the insensible vapor or sensible water which issues from the sudoriferous pores of the skin; diaphoresis.
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- noun physiology The salty fluid excreted by the
sweat glands .
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- noun salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aqua non sit calida, sed tepida, ne sudor sequatur.
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Tener sudor et creber anhelitus, palpitatio cordis, &c.
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Tum quod sequatur inde sudor, vomitio, urina, a quibus superfluitates a corpore removentur et remanet corpus mundum.
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Haud dissimile ijs genus Pharnacum in Æthiopia prodidit Damon, quorum sudor tabem contactis corporibus afferat.
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Haud dissimile ijs genus Pharnacum in 苩hiopia prodidit Damon, quorum sudor tabem contactis corporibus afferat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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We represent herewith a sanitary train that was very successfully used during the prevalence of an epidemic of _sudor Anglicus_ in Poitou this year.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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Dr. Thoinot, who directed this mission, in order to make an experiment with these apparatus, selected two points in which cases of _sudor_ were still numerous, and in which the conditions were entirely different, and permitted of studying the working of the service and apparatus under various phases.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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What wonder, then, that not until the first Omaric madness had passed away were the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr., lifted into the light after an infinity of sudor et labor spent in excavating under the 9,000 irregular verbs, 80 declensions, and 41 exceptions to every rule which go to make the ancient Mango-Bornese dialect in which the poem was originally written, foremost among the dead languages!
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. Wallace Irwin 1917
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"Sive ille est coeli sudor, sive quaedam siderum saliva, sine purgantis se aeris succus, ... magnam tamen coelestis naturae voluptatem affert."
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[1501] Pliny (ii. 103, 104) writes: "Itaque solis ardore siccatur liquor; ... sic mari late patenti saporem incoqui salis, aut quia exhausto inde dulci tenuique, quod facillime, trahat vis ignea, omne asperius crassiusque linquatur: ideo summa aequarum aqua dulciorem profundam: hanc esse veriorem causam asperi saporis, quam quod mare terrae sudor sit aeternus: aut quia plurimum ex arido misceatur illi vapore, aut quia terrae natura sicut medicatas aquas inficiat."
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