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Definition of Indurate

1. Adjective. Emotionally hardened. "Cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"

2. Verb. Become fixed or established. "Indurated customs"

3. Verb. Make hard or harder. "The cold hardened the butter"

4. Verb. Become hard or harder. "The wax hardened"

5. Verb. Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate. "He was inured to the cold"

Definition of Indurate

1. a. Hardened; not soft; indurated.

2. v. t. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.

3. v. i. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

Definition of Indurate

1. Adjective. Indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous. ¹

2. Verb. to harden or to grow hard ¹

3. Verb. to make callous or unfeeling ¹

4. Verb. to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Indurate

1. to make hard [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES] - See also: hard

Medical Definition of Indurate

1. 1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air. 2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate. Origin: Indurated; Indurating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indurate

induline indulines indulinophil indulins indult indults indument indumentum induna indunas

induplicate induplicative indurable indurance indurances indurate (current term) indurated indurated clay indurates indurating

induration induration of the arteries indurations indurative indure indusia indusial indusiate indusiated indusium

Literary usage of Indurate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"toughen, inure, indurate, callous (rare). S. Referring to the feelings, morale, etc. ... (rare), indurate, callous (fig. ..."

2. A Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines by Legh Richmond (1817)
"... but such as will refuse it themselves. other some .hereby made more indurate, this discrepance proceedeth from the corruption of men. ..."

3. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1908)
"The simple and indurate forms, however, very commonly coexist, ... The deeper-seated variety of acne— the indurate form—presents clinical symptoms differing ..."

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