obdure

English

Adjective

obdure (comparative more obdure, superlative most obdure)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of obdurate
   • 1613, Thomas Heywood, “[Prologue]”, in The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, , signature B, recto:

     The Ages in their grovvth vvax worſe & vvorſe. / The firſt vvas pretious, full of golden reſt. / Siluer ſucceeded; good, but not ſo pure: / Then loue and harmleſſe luſts might currant paſſe: / The third that follovves vve finde more obdure, / And that vve title by the Age of Braſſe.

Verb

obdure (third-person singular simple present obdures, present participle obduring, simple past and past participle obdured)

1. (obsolete) To harden.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:

     This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdur'd.

   • 1626, Joseph Hall, Saint Paul's Combat. Part II:

     […] this spiritual edge shall either turn again, or, through our weak wieldance, not enter the stubborn and thick hide of obdured hearts […]

Anagrams

• rubedo

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “obdure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)