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<hw>En*dur"ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>endurance</ets>. See <er>Endure</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.</def>

<blockquote>Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the <b>endurance</b> of his own possession. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.</def>

<blockquote>Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and <b>endurance</b> of all evils, of pain and of death. <i>Sir W. Temple.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.</syn>

<h1>Endurant</h1> <Xpage=491>

<hw>En*dur"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.</def>

<blockquote>The ibex is a remarkably <b>endurant</b> animal. <i>J. G. Wood.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Endure</h1> <Xpage=491>

<hw>En*dure"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Endured</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Enduring</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>endurer</ets>; pref. <ets>en-</ets> (L. <ets>in</ets>) + <ets>durer</ets> to last. See <er>Dure</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>, and cf. <er>Indurate</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.</def>

<blockquote>Their verdure still <b>endure</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not <b>endure</b>. <i>Job viii. 15.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.</def>

<blockquote>Can thine heart <b>endure</b>, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee? <i>Ezek. xxii. 14.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Endure</h1> <Xpage=491>

<hw>En*dure"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; <as>as, metals <ex>endure</ex> a certain degree of heat without melting; to <ex>endure</ex> wind and weather.</as></def>

<blockquote>Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms <b>endure</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>I will no longer <b>endure</b> it. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Therefore I <b>endure</b> all things for the elect's sake. <i>2 Tim. ii. 10.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>How can I <b>endure</b> to see the evil that shall come unto my people? <i>Esther viii. 6.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Manly limbs <b>endured</b> with little ease. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To last; remain; continue; abide; brook; submit to; suffer.</syn>

<h1>Endurement</h1> <Xpage=491>

<hw>En*dure"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>endurement</ets>.]</ety> <def>Endurance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>