sudorific \soo-duh-RIF-ik\,
adjective:
1. Causing sweat.
2. Sudoriparous.
noun:
1. A sudorific agent.
Having thrown him into a cold sweat by his spiritual sudorific, he attacks him with his material remedies, which are often quite as unpalatable.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Medical Essays, 1842-1882"
Wracked by such sudorific thoughts, he tossed noisily about, maddened, aching.
-- Angela Huth, "South of the Lights"
Every sudorific hitherto employed had failed to produce this result upon a skin which horrible diseases had left impervious.
-- Honoré de Balzac, "Cousin Pons"
Sudorific comes from the Latin word sūdor meaning "sweat." The word "sweat" is unrelated and comes from the Old English, swote.
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