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Webster 1913 Edition
Dure
Dure
,Adj.
[L.
durus
; akin to Ir. & Gael. dur [GREEK]
, stubborn, W. dir
certain, sure, cf. Gr. [GREEK] force.] Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.
[R.]
The winter is severe, and life is
dure
and rude. W. H. Russell.
Dure
,Verb.
I.
To last; to continue; to endure.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Raleigh.
Yet hath he not root in himself, but
dureth
for a while. Matt. xiii. 21.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dure
DURE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
dure
dure
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /djʊə/
Verb
dure (third-person singular simple present dures, present participle during, simple past and past participle dured)
- (archaic) To last, continue, endure.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
- she was one of the damoysels of the lake that hyȝte Nyneue / […] / And euer she maade Merlyn good chere tyl she had lerned of hym al maner thynge that she desyred and he was assoted vpon her that he myghte not be from her / Soo on a tyme he told kynge Arthur that he sholde not dure longe but for al his craftes he shold be put in the erthe quyck
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:
- But he that was sowne in the stony grunde ys he, which heareth the worde of God, and anon with ioye receaveth itt, yet hath no rottes in himselfe, And therefore he dureth but a season […].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
Translations
to last, continue, endure
Etymology 2
Adjective
dure (comparative more dure, superlative most dure)
- (obsolete) hard; harsh; severe; rough
- W. H. Russell
- The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.
- W. H. Russell
Anagrams
Asturian
Verb
dure
- first-person singular present subjunctive of durar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of durar
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
dure
- Inflected form of duur
Verb
dure
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of duren
Anagrams
French
Verb
dure
- first-person singular present indicative of durer
- third-person singular present indicative of durer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of durer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of durer
- second-person singular imperative of durer
Adjective
dure
- feminine singular of dur
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From dūrus (“hard, rough”)
Adverb
dūrē (comparable dūrius, superlative dūrissimē)
Synonyms
- (harshly, sternly): dūriter
Related terms
References
- dure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dure”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)