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Webster 1913 Edition

Inure

In-ure′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Inured
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Inuring
.]
[From pref.
in-
in +
ure
use, work. See
Ure
use, practice,
Opera
, and cf.
Manure
.]
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.
[in and ure. Ure signifies use, practice, in old English.]
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.
To pass in 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 of the grantee, or it inures to their benefit.

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