Crossword clues for indurate
indurate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Indurating.]
To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. i. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
Indurate \In"du*rate\, a. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure.]
Hardened; not soft; indurated.
--Tyndale.Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Latin induratus, past participle of indurare "to make hard, harden" (see endure). Related: Indurated.
Wiktionary
indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous. v
1 to harden or to grow hard 2 to make callous or unfeeling 3 to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
WordNet
adj. emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous]
v. become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn: harden] [ant: soften]
become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: harden] [ant: soften]
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" [syn: inure, harden]
Usage examples of "indurate".
In cases in which the tumors have become indurated and very large it is impossible to effect cures by the foregoing or any other medical treatment.
He is trained to become wiry and active, his eye is indurated to the tight wrappings, the angular contours that constitute a 'smart mooncalfishness.
Phi-oo, unless I misunderstood him, explained that in the earlier stages these queer little creatures are apt to display signs of suffering in their various cramped situations, but they easily become indurated to their lot.
What had lain within the T'lan Imass, layered, indurated by the countless centuries, was a landscape Onrack could read once more.
Similar roots of Jasmine, especially those of Jasminum fruticans, are sometimes intermixed, and can be distinguished by the absence of indurated pith cells, which occur in Gelsemium, by the abundance of thin-walled starch cells in the pith and in the medullary ray cells (those of Gelsemium being thickwalled and destitute of starch), and by the bast fibres round the sieve tubes.
Their march this day lay among singular hills and knolls of an indurated red earth, resembling brick, about the bases of which were scattered pumice stones and cinders, the whole bearing traces of the action of fire.