Induro, indúras, pen. prod. indurâre. Plini. To harden: to make harde.Niues indurat Boreas.Ouid.Freeseth snow.Indurata glacies.Liu.Robora indurata flammis.Stat.Stakes hardened with fire.Ora indurata cornu.Ouid.A face chaunged into an harde hornie bil of a birde.Induratus timor.Liu.Feare hardned.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-dūro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n., to make hard, to harden (poet. and post-Aug.). I.Act.A.Lit.: nivem Indurat Boreas, Ov. Tr. 3, 9, 14: sues indurantes attritu arborum costas, Plin. 8, 52, 78, 212.—B.Trop., to harden, steel: indurandus est animus, Sen. Ep. 51: adversus omnia, quae accidere possunt, id. ib. 4: frontem,
to render shameless
, id. Ben. 7, 28.—II.Neutr., to become hard, harden: quae (creta) si induraverit, Veg. 3, 82, 2.— Hence, indūrā-tus, a, um, P. a., hardened.A.Lit.: robora indurata flammis, Stat. Th. 4, 64.—B.Trop.: induratus praeter spem resistendo hostium timor, Liv. 30, 18, 3: Germanis quid induratius ad omnem patientiam?Sen. Ira, 1, 11.
