indurate meaning: definition, quotations

indurate

verb

/ɪnˈdjʊɹeɪt/

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.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
The superficial temporal artery (or arteries) may become exquisitely tender to the touch and visibly indurated.1970, Oliver Sacks, chapter 1, in Migraine, London: Picador, published 1995, page 15:

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 […]1801, Helen Maria Williams, Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French ..., Volume 1:

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.1992, Saul Bellow, “Winter in Tuscany”, in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future, New York: Viking, published 1994, page 257:

adj

/ɪnˈdjʊɹət/

Hardened.

Obstinate, unfeeling, callous.

Now are they indurate ⁊ tough as Pharao ⁊ will not bow vnto any ryghte waie oꝛ oꝛdꝛe.1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “A Compendious Rehersall of That Which Goeth Before”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio clvj, recto: