Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
INDURATE
callous, indurate, pachydermatous
(adjective) emotionally hardened; “a callous indifference to suffering”; “cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion”
inure, harden, indurate
(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; “He was inured to the cold”
harden, indurate
(verb) become hard or harder; “The wax hardened”
harden, indurate
(verb) make hard or harder; “The cold hardened the butter”
indurate
(verb) become fixed or established; “indurated customs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
indurate (third-person singular simple present indurates, present participle indurating, simple past and past participle indurated)
To harden or to grow hard.
To make callous or unfeeling.
To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
Synonyms
• inure
• (harden): See also harden
• (strengthen): See also strengthen
Adjective
indurate (comparative more indurate, superlative most indurate)
Hardened, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
Anagrams
• daturine, ruinated, urinated
Source: Wiktionary
In"du*rate, a. Etym: [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure.]
1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale.
2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
In"du*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Indurating.]
1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
In"du*rate, v. i.
Definition: To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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