Hypertext Webster Gateway: "indurate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Indurate \In"du*rate\, a. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to
harden. See {Endure}.]
1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. --Tyndale.
2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indurated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Indurating}.]
1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some
fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render
obdurate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. i.
To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates
by drying, and by heat.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
indurate
adj : emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering";
"cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: {callous},
{thick-skinned}, {pachydermatous}]
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