indurate
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When indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes human beings do things that are too much for even the most indurate newsgatherers of the daily press to contemplate without shuddering.
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When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood.
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HAMSKEKPIR, prob. from hams, hide; and the v. skerpa, to sharpen, also to dry, to indurate.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
Yet was he so indurate that he would not let them go, but would that they should make their sacrifice to God in that land.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
Both indurated by early Nintendo gaming and an inherited tradition of rote replication duplicated many orthodox video gaming tropes.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2018
This has become a matter of indurated faith, resistant to any insert of mere fact.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sclē′rous, hard or indurated: ossified or bony; Sclērur′ine, having stiff, hard tail-feathers, as a bird of the genus Sclerurus.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Fertile fronds erect, rigid, with contracted pod-like or berry-like divisions at first completely concealing the sporangia, and at last, when dry and indurated, cracking open and allowing the spores to escape.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The fifteen years lad was thick set and sturdy, and stood his ground well, but he was no match for the man of more toughened frame and indurated muscle.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
In moulding pulp into articles of manufacture, satisfactory machines have been invented, not only for the mere forming them into shape, but for water-proofing and indurating the same.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
Released from the indurating business of daily chores and the calculations of house-keeping, and placidly secure in a miser's infatuation, she lived an almost effortless emotional existence.
From Command by William McFee
Their feet, too, were bare, but small and well-formed, betraying little indurating familiarity with the rough paths around them.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
Flowering glume papery-membranaceous, dry and sometimes indurating with age, rounded or flattish on the back, 5–many-nerved, scarious at the entire blunt summit.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Contact with the world is an indurating process; I really did not know how hard I had grown, until I felt my heart soften at sight of you.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
