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- verb Present participle of
indurate .
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Examples
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Pilot-bread, a year or so baked, and ever since subjected to the indurating influences of an atmosphere intensely dry, is not particularly succulent or savory food, and I did not find it improved by some minutes 'immersion in the frying-pan of hot lard from which our rations of pork had just been turned out; but others of more experience liked it much.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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For accelerating the setting of cements they use carbonate of soda, alum, and carbonate of ammonia; for indurating or increasing the hardening properties of cements they use chloride of calcium, oxide of magnesia, and chloride of magnesia or bittern water; for obtaining an intense hardness they use oxychloride of magnesia.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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There was a wide margin of grass along here, and Gabriel's footsteps were deadened by its softness, even at this indurating period of the year.
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The indurating effects of a selfish religiosity never withered her soul nor narrowed it.
Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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Contact with the world is an indurating process; I really did not know how hard I had grown, until I felt my heart soften at sight of you.
Macaria 1872
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Contact with the world is an indurating process; I really did not know how hard I had grown, until I felt my heart soften at sight of you.
Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864
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In addition to the indurating effects of sin everywhere, the people of India have been for ages so drugged, I may say, with pantheistic and polytheistic teaching, that if man's moral nature had been destructible it must have been destroyed ages ago.
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857
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Why should any one go through an indurating process? will you inform me?
Queechy 1854
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Why should any one go through an indurating process?
Queechy Susan Warner 1852
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Why should any one go through an indurating process?
Queechy, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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