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indurated, ppl. a.|ˈɪndjʊreɪtɪd|
[f. prec.]
1. Of substances: Made hard, hardened (esp. Geol. of clay, marl, etc.).
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 141 The outward crust of these is somtimes only an indurated chalk. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. xlviii. (1738) 176 They so often degenerate into those indurated and hard excrescences. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxix. 456 These have..one seed within the indurated calyx. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 299 Two beds of indurated clay. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. iii. (1857) 33 Solid deposits of indurated sandstone.
2. Of the heart, feelings, etc.: Rendered callous or stubborn.
1604T. Wright Passions 349 A hard indurated heart may resist the sweete calling of God. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 232 Love's and friendship's finely pointed dart Fall blunted from each indurated heart. 1811J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 635 Indurated stoic as I am. 1866Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 466/1 It is by hitting on some fresh power within us, that habits, however indurated, are now and then broken or dissolved. |