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verb
Indurate  v. t.  (past & past part. indurated; pres. part. 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.


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


adjective
Indurate  adj.  
1.
Hardened; not soft; indurated.
2.
Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.





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"Indurate" Quotes from Famous Books



... period of thirty minutes, in complete triumph over the power of an element so much dreaded by humankind, and so destructive to animal nature. It has been properly observed, that there are preparations which so indurate the cuticle, as to render it insensible to the heat of either boiling oil or melted lead; and the fatal qualities of certain poisons may be destroyed, if the medium through which they are imbibed, as we suppose to be the case here, is a strong alkali. Many experiments, as to the extent ...
— The Miracle Mongers, an Expos • Harry Houdini


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