Category:Indurate

In"du*rate, a. Etym: [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure.]

1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale.

2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.

indurate 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.

indurate In"du*rate, v. i.

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