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.

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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.

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In"du*rate, v. i.

To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

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