inure
verbEtymology
From Middle English inuren, equivalent to in- + ure (“practise, exercise”).
- inherited from inuren
Definitions
To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated…
To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.
- Matcht with as valiant men, and of as cleane a might, / As skilfull to commaund, and as inur’d to fight.
- Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured. / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.
To take effect, to be operative.
- Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said "to inure to the benefit of Jim".
- If I understand the process correctly, cash refunds are turned into the United States Treasury, but price reductions inure to the particular department and increase its appropriations by whatever they collect.
To commit.
- He […] gan that ladie strongly to appele / Of many haynous crymes by her enured.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at inure. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at inure. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at inure
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA