What does "indurate" mean?
Indurate: Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
Additional senses
- 2.To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
- 3.To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
- 4.To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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