indurescere

indurescere [CL], indurēre 1 to become hard or stiff, harden, set; b (w. body or part of body as subj.). haec nix [i. e. flour] / magis indurescit ad ignem Aldh. Aen. 67 (Cribellus) 9; 9‥ (v. derigescere); dureo, -es, quod non est in usu; sed componitur ~eo -es et addures, -es Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 171; manna ~uit ad ignem et liquefiebat ad solem [cf. Exod. xvi 21] S. Langton Serm. 71. 18; Bart. Angl. IV 1 (v. indurativus); gutta ‥ frigore vel calore ~escit [Trevisa: is made harde] et gemmam facit [cf. Isid. Etym. XVII 7. 31: in soliditatem durescit] Ib. XVII 121; [pinguedo piscium] quanto diucius coqueretur tanto magis †indiruit [l. induruit] Chr. Kirkstall 137; ne [panes] ~escant aut muscidi fiant Wals. HA II 29. b [corpora sanctorum mortuorum] rigoris asperie ~escunt R. Cold. Cuthb. 2 p. 4; [sancti Jacobi] cutis inventa est in genibus et in cubitis ~uisse propter frequentes orationes Hon. Spec. Eccl. 950A; sic pueri venter ~uit ut ‥ lapideam representaret duriciam Mir. Fridesw. 26; istis [mulieribus] exit matrix et ~escit Gilb. VII 307v. 1; vides indurescere / carnem celis digniorem [sc. of the crucified Christ] J. Howd. Sal. 40. 7. 2 to become tough, robust. reviruit sanitas, artuum laxa compago ~uit W. Malm. GP V 259 p. 415. 3 to become resolute, obdurate. [castimonia Agathae] ut adamantinus scopulus contra illata carnificum tormenta fervo fortior ~uit Aldh. VirgP 41; ad confringendam consuetudinem peccandi, que ‥ longo abusu induruit P. Blois Ep. Sup. 63. 2.

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