Indurate

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.

2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale.

2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.