Crossword clues for inured
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inure \In*ure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inured; p. pr. & vb. n.
Inuring.] [From pref. in- in + ure use, work. See Ure
use, practice, Opera, and cf. Manure.]
To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom
till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden;
to habituate; to practice habitually. ``To inure our prompt
obedience.''
--Milton.
He . . . did inure them to speak little.
--Sir T.
North.
Inured and exercised in learning.
--Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
The poor, inured to drudgery and distress.
--Cowper.
``Here the fortune of the day turned, and all things
became adverse to the Romans; the place deep with ooze,
sinking under those who stood, slippery to such as
advanced; their armor heavy, the waters deep; nor could
they wield, in that uneasy situation, their weighty
javelins. The barbarians on the contrary, were inured
to encounter in the bogs, their persons tall, their
spears long, such as could wound at a distance.'' In
this morass the Roman army, after an ineffectual
struggle, was irrecoverably lost; nor could the body of
the emperor ever be found. Such was the fate of Decius,
in the fiftieth year of his age; . . .
--Gibbon
[quoting
Tacitus]
(Decline and
Fall of the
Roman Empire,
Ch. 10)
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: inure)
WordNet
Usage examples of "inured".
It was losing its potency, or, rather, he was becoming inured to its effects.
I heard and glimpsed scenes of the most abandoned depravity to which my long exposure had still not inured me.
I began to sense another odour distinguishable from the acrid, sulphurous stench that I had already grown somewhat inured to, and eventually I realized that it was that of the river: a deep, ancient smell like the stagnant ponds that I had found so fascinating as a small boy.
The ape-man was sore from the wounds that Molak had inflicted upon him, but he was inured to physical suffering and endured it with the calm and fortitude of the wild beasts that had taught him to lead the jungle life after the manner of all those that are born to it.
Even the savage beast that was the real Tarzan, inured to the sufferings and horrors of the grim jungle, shuddered as he contemplated the hideous fate that had overtaken the innocent child.
He was lucky: he was used to travel, he was used to change, and he should have been inured to this kind of minor disappointment.
The English were as yet so little inured to obedience under a regular government, that the death of almost every king, since the conquest, had been attended with disorders, and the council, reflecting on the recent civil wars, and on the animosities which naturally remain after these great convulsions, had reason to apprehend dangerous consequences from the absence of the son and successor of Henry.
The sentiments of men were divided: all the nobility had taken part on one side or the other: the people followed implicitly their leaders: the two claimants themselves had great power and numerous retainers in Scotland: and it is no wonder that, among a rude people, more accustomed to arms than inured to laws, a controversy of this nature, which could not be decided by any former precedent among them, and which is capable of exciting commotions in the most legal and best established governments, should threaten the state with the most fatal convulsions.
As few monarchs have lain under stronger temptations to violate the principles of equity than Edward in his transactions with Scotland, so never were they violated with less scruple and reserve: yet his advantages were hitherto precarious and uncertain, and the Scots, once roused to arms and inured to war, began to appear a formidable enemy, even to this military and ambitious monarch.
The lord of Gaucour, a brave and experienced captain, was appointed governor: many officers of distinction threw themselves into the place: the troops which they conducted were inured to war, and were determined to make the most obstinate resistance: and even the inhabitants, disciplined by the long continuance of hostilities, were well qualified, in their own defence, to second the efforts of the most veteran forces.
The cruel and unrelenting spirit of Edward, though inured to the ferocity of civil wars, was at the same time extremely devoted to the softer passions, which, without mitigating his severe temper, maintained a great influence over him, and shared his attachment with the pursuits of ambition and the thirst of military glory.
The ancient Saxons, like the other German nations, where each individual was inured to arms, and where the independence of men was secured by a great equality of possessions, seem to have admitted a considerable mixture of democracy into their form of government, and to have been one of the freest nations of which there remains any account in the records of history.
Mostly it was based on the media-popularized image of the rugged individualist meteor minor as scruffy, tough, inured to the emptiness and loneliness of the depths of space, bold, fierce in a fight, but potentially heroic.
Sesheyans, being fairly inured to the wet as a normal part of their environment, were somewhat blind to the human or fraal attitude toward rain inside a tent.
The twins, inured to his frequent appearances in Hill Street, accepted him with much the same contemptuous tolerance as they would have felt for an over-fed lap-dog which their mama chose to encourage.