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Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession.

Sir W. Scott.

2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.

Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death.

Sir W. Temple.

Syn. -- Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.

En*dur"ant (?), a. Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.

The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal.

J. G. Wood.

En*dure" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Endured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Enduring (?).] [F. endurer; pref. en- (L. in) + durer to last. See Dure, v. i., and cf. Indurate.] 1. To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

Their verdure still endure.

Shak.

He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure.

Job viii. 15.

2. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?

Ezek. xxii. 14.

En*dure", v. t. 1. To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.

Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure.

Dryden.

2. To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.

I will no longer endure it.

Shak.

Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake.

2 Tim. ii. 10.

How can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?

Esther viii. 6.

3. To harden; to toughen; to make hardy. [Obs.]