indurate

UK /ɪnˈdjʊɹeɪt/ US /ɪnˈdjʊɹeɪt/
verb 3adj 2

Definitions

verb

1

To harden or to grow hard.

The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril, even the indurated hand dyed to the orange-tawny of the toucan's bill, a hand telling alike of the halyards and tar-bucket […] all this strangely indicated a lineage in direct contradiction to his lot.

The superficial temporal artery (or arteries) may become exquisitely tender to the touch and visibly indurated.

2

To make callous or unfeeling.

Oh, no ! it is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart — the revolutionary impulse is too swift to admit of a pause at the sight of individual misery — the tempest is too loud to hear the wailings of the wretch that perishes beneath its billows […]

3

To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.

The afternoon was not particularly warm: our noses and eyes were running; his were dry. He was evidently indurated against natural hardships.

adj

1

Hardened.

The doctor removed a lot of indurate skin from his wound.

2

Obstinate, unfeeling, callous.

Now are they indurate ⁊ tough as Pharao ⁊ will not bow vnto any ryghte waie oꝛ oꝛdꝛe.

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