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Webster 1913 Edition
Inure
In-ure′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Inured
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Inuring
.] To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually.
“To inure our prompt obedience.” Milton.
He . . . did
inure
them to speak little. Sir T. North.
Inured
and exercised in learning. Robynson (More’s Utopia).
The poor,
inured
to drudgery and distress. Cowper.
In-ure′
,Verb.
I.
To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of;
as, a gift of lands
. inures
to the heirs[Written also
enure
.] Webster 1828 Edition
Inure
INU'RE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To habituate; to accustom; to apply or expose in use or practice till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience, or makes little impression. Thus a man inures his body to labor and toil,till he sustains that which would destroy a body unaccustomed to it. So we inure ourselves to cold or heat. Warriors are inured to blood,and seamen are inured to hardships and deprivations.INU'RE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
inure
inure
See also: in ure
English
Verb
inure (third-person singular simple present inures, present participle inuring, simple past and past participle inured)
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate. [from 16th c.]
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6
- To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p. 465:
- Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured. / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.
- 1996, Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
- As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6
- (intransitive, chiefly law) To take effect, to be operative. [from 16th c.]
- Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim".
Translations
to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure
to take effect, or to benefit someone