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▪ I. † obdure, a. Obs. (exc. arch.)|əbˈdjʊə(r)|
[f. ob- 1 b + dūr-us hard: after L. obdūrāre: see next.]
1. = obdurate a. 1.
1608Heywood Lucrece iv. ii. Wks. 1874 V. 219 My doors the day time to my friends are free, But in the night the obdure gates are lesse kinde. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xvi. 45 Hee made obdure the heart of yt proud King Pharoh. 1655Heywood & Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea i. ii. Wks. 1874 VI. 375 The boy's inflexible, and I obdure. 1844Mrs. Browning Sonn., Meaning of the Look, When thy deathly need is obdurest [later edd. dreariest].
2. = obdurate a. 2.
1624Quarles Sion's Sonn. xxiv. 1632― Div. Fancies ii. xiv. (1660) 54 Gods sacred Word is like the Lamp of Day, Which softens wax, but makes obdure the clay.
Hence † obˈdurely adv.; † obˈdureness.
1624Heywood Gunaik. i. 55 The fates For her obdurenesse turn'd her into stone. 1634Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. Christ Betrayed, Oh the sottishnesse and obdurenesse of this sonne of perdition! 1848Lytton K. Arthur ix. civ, The morsels least obdurely tough.
▪ II. obdure, v. Now rare or Obs.|əbˈdjʊə(r)|
[ad. L. obdūrā-re to harden, to render or become hard; f. ob- (ob- 1 b) + dūrāre to harden, f. dūr-us hard.]
1. trans. = obdurate v. 1. (In quots. 1640 in good sense: To strengthen, fortify, ‘steel’.)
1598Yong Diana 24 Now mollifie thy dire Hardnes and brest of thine so much obdured. 1633Heywood Eng. Trav. v. Wks. 1874 IV. 90 Hath..sinne so obdur'd thy heart? 1640Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. (Ward) 20/1 We may not so obdure ourselves as to be like the Spartan boys, who would not so much as change a countenance at their beating. Ibid. 23/2 It concerns a wise man to obdure himself against these weak fears. 1678R. Barclay Apol. Quakers v. §18. 153 God seems..to have obdur'd their Hearts, to force them unto great Sins. 1860[see obdurate v. 1].
†2. To harden physically; = obdurate v. 2.
1624Heywood Gunaik. i. 55 A dragon they espie Obdur'd to stone. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 112 Brick..hardned by the Sun, which makes them..no less solid and usefull than those the Fire obdures.
†3. intr.
a. To become hard.
b. To become or remain obdurate; to persist stubbornly. Obs.
1609Heywood Brit. Troy vi. ii, Sencelesse of good as stones they soone obdure. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Answ. Post. (1653) 88 Becket obdures, denies that the..Courts have authoritie to judge him. c1750Shenstone Ruin'd Abbey 213 Resolute in wrongs the priest obdur'd.
Hence † obˈduring vbl. n.
1643Milton Divorce ii. xx, He..would little perplex his thought for the obduring of nine hundred and ninety such as will dayly take worse liberties. |