Verb (used with object) : Cold indurates the soil. ,transgressions that indurate the heart. ,to indurate oneself to privation and suffering. ,to indurate custom through practice. From Dictionary.com.
Its indurate was beginning to show the wear of feet and wheels through centuries. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Usage: We see so much bad news every day that we risk becoming an indurate society, incapable of deep feeling until great tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the Week #11] Reference
They are so extremely short and indurate that it is difficult to imagine the function they perform; at first they are capable probably of absorbing from the air. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Neuerthelesse, desirous to vanquishe his indurate affections, he continued abroade for a certaine time, during whiche space, vnable to quenche the fire, he led a more desolate and troublesome life, then he did before. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Growing indurate, turning to stone, yet burgeoning15. From Wordnik.com. [Spoon River Anthology: Webster Ford.] Reference
And the waters no more delved from the indurate lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
'T is not enough to have seen, I have trodden this indurate ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
I of Moses shall so indurate the heart of Pharaoh that he shall follow you, and all the. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
The drops that trickle within the cavern harden, yet brighten into spars as they indurate. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
Even where there is no plastering, the tattooing may be found to indurate the skin, and to render it less sensible to cold. From Wordnik.com. [John Rutherford, the White Chief] Reference
Luckily, the patient was seen before the retracted portion of the penile integument had had a chance to condense and indurate. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
Pharaoh was so indurate and hard-hearted that he would not let them go, and bade Moses that he should no more come in his sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
Moses and Aaron showed all these signs and plagues tofore Pharaoh, and his heart was so indurate that he would not let them depart. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
When his friends asked him, after this first interview, what he thought of the Queen, he gave her credit for "a proud mind, a crafty wit, and an indurate heart.". From Wordnik.com. [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference
But this was very odd about the affair, that the stiffer Virginia grew, as I saw her there, the more indurate, the more ruggedly of the soil, declining battle, the more. From Wordnik.com. [The Fool Errant] Reference
It is the stimulus of sound natures; and as the weight of his wife's arm makes a man's body proud, so the sense of his usefulness to the world does but warm and indurate his soul. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference
But they are all thrown in at once and used incessantly, and they thus overpower and indurate the ear, without presenting any picture to the mind, to which the ear is the passage. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Italian and French Composers]
And in likewise did the enchanters with their witchcraft, and the heart of Pharaoh was so indurate that he would not let the people depart as our Lord had commanded, but he returned home for this time. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
Mr. Clay had been at the most polished courts of Europe, and was familiar with their most refined society; but these he visited in mature life, after the manners are formed, and habit made them indurate. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
Simply because certain relationships are seen to hold or deemed necessary and important over long periods in history (for example central banks and our definition of money) does not imply they are indurate. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
According to the great general law of the earth, soil should have been formed from rock, and not rock from soil: though there certainly are cases in which the earths indurate, as well as become disintegrated. From Wordnik.com. [The Crater] Reference
Whether from the fear lest I should do more harm than good; lest controversy should, as so often happens, indurate rather than soften the heart: or perhaps I had some secret distrust of my own temper or his. From Wordnik.com. [The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic] Reference
"Heaven forbid that any process of philosophy were capable so to sear and indurate our feelings, that nothing should agitate them but what arose instantly and immediately out of our own selfish interests!. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference
The Stoic's cold and indurate repose?. From Wordnik.com. [Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace] Reference
Dissolve the ice of her indurate heart!. From Wordnik.com. [Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age] Reference
To indurate forms and systems! excellent bricks. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
16. indurate. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
Vocabulary word of the week indurate - in-duh-rut - adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the Week #11] Reference
Preparing, dressing, sharp sauces, salt meats, indurate, soused, fried, broiled or made-dishes, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
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