inure

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Except by a mean he himself inure,

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  1. transitive verb To habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection; accustom: "Though the food became no more palatable, he soon became sufficiently inured to it” (John Barth).

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  • With such strange termes* her eyes she doth inure, That with one looke she doth my life dismay, And with another doth it streight recure: Her smile me drawes; her frowne me drives away Thus doth she traine and teach me with her lookes Such art of eyes I never read in bookes Termes_, extremes XXII This holy season*, fit to fast and pray, Men to devotion ought to be inclynd: Therefore, I lykewise, on so holy day, For my sweet saynt some service fit will find. —  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5
  • "It seems to me they are trying to inure people to that kind of language on TV. —  Advertising Age - Homepage
  • Except by a mean he himself inure, —  A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
  • These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring. —  Leaves of Grass
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  1. Middle English, back-formation from enured, customary, from in ure : in, in; see in1 + ure, use (from Old French euvre, uevre, work, from Latin opera, activity associated with work; see op- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Also enure; from in ure, in the phrase put in ure, put in practice: in, prep.; ure, work, operation, practice: see ure.
 

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