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.
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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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But all I see is the snow in the vernal sunshine dissolving, And the waters no more delved from the indurate lake.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
V. render hard &c. adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust†.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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
The cervical glands are indurated all around the neck.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
The river in its section of the plain, as far as Bloody Fall, presents alternately cliffs of reddish sandstone, and red-coloured slaty indurated clay or marl, and shelving white clay banks.
From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell
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 indurating effects of a selfish religiosity never withered her soul nor narrowed it.
From Old Familiar Faces by Theodore Watts-Dunton
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
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
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
And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
