indurate

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When indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion.

From Time Magazine Archive

When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

V. render hard &c. adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust†.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Underneath these coherent and indurate ledges the most valuble ores exist, but coal and fossils are searched for in vain.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 by Various