sudorific UK /ˌs(j)uːdəˈɹɪfɪk/US /ˌsudəˈɹɪfɪk/adjective 2noun 1forms 1 adjective2 •That produces sweating.The fortunes of the Helvetius family [i.e., the family of Johann Friedrich Schweitzer] were established firmly upon the sudorific, expectorant and emetic qualities of the root of ipecacuanha. — 1955 •In a state of perspiration; covered in sweat; sudoriferous, sweaty. noun1 •A medicine that produces sweating.The whole of this hill is covered with the wild sage, the salvia pomifera, […] It enters into the materia medica of the modern Greeks, and is taken as tea, and used as a sudorific in feverish cases. — 1819 formssudorifics
