What is "endura"

n. (context ecclesiastical history English) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.

Endura may refer to:

• a practice of the Cathars: a ritualistic fasting in order to speed death
• Endura (band), a dark ambient group active in the 1990s
• Endura-D, an engine built by Ford Motor Company
• Endura, an EP by Ever We Fall
• Endura Watch Factory, a "Private Label" watch manufacturing company of the Swatch Group
• Endura Racing a British cycling team

Endura (sometimes written Endvra) was a dark ambient band that was active during the 1990s. The band had only two members, Stephen Pennick and Christopher Walton. The name of the band comes from the Cathars' practice of ritualistic fasting to speed death.