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endurcir (s.xii1/3)
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The form endursir is a cross reference to the following entry:

endurcir (s.xii1/3)

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endurcer,  endurcier,  endursir,  endurzir  
  FEW:  durus 3,194a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  endurcir 9,458c TL: endurcir 3,303 DEAF:  dur (endurcir)  DMF:  endurcir  TLF:  endurcir  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to make hard: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) ne voilez endurcir les voz cuers  Oxf Ps ANTS 100.94.7
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Et notez que en ceste cause ne doit l’en pas metre apocrustica, ce sont choses repercussives, car eles en espoisseroient la matire et endurceroient  A-N Med i 217
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Metez un demi quarteron de cyre pur endurcir le  Pop Med 282
♦to strengthen: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Columpnes de metal ad fet atorner, Pilers e postz de fer endurcir e quarrer Trestoz de butemay [...]  Rom Chev ANTS 6547
♦culin.to boil hard: 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  fetes buillir tant ke [...] li ofeus (=eggs) seint bien [...] endurci  Med Treatise 151.110
♦to harden, test, prove: 
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  exploret: endurcit  TLL ii 90.170
2to dull, stultify, make stupid: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  hebetat: endursit  TLL i 161

v.intrans.

1to grow hard, harden: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  (Crystal) est glace natural Par anz endurzist de freidure  Lapid 59.757
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Matin sicume herbe trespast [...] vespre dechede, endurcisse e areisse  Oxf Ps ANTS 97.89.6
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  (pitch) Plus endurcist en mer qe terre par gelees  Rom Chev ANTS 6396
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  dunqe endursit la terre arcillouse e la terre perouse ensechit  HENLEY2 322

v.intrans.

2to tense, become rigid: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  (the rope) soi prist a endurcier  Dial Greg SATF 10788

p.p. as a.

hard, frozen up: 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  mer e terre est engelee, Si endurcie, si lee Ke n’ert ja deliveré  Pet Phil 1190
♦hardened, congealed: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  esmunder e eslaver ordure endurcee  Joshua Sermons i 17
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Li sancs Auban i pert aers e endurci  S Aub 1114
♦calloused: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  calosa: (C) endurci (var. (L: s.xiii) durasye )  TLL ii 125.2
♦grown hard, become stale: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Les pains porta, cum eins vus diz, Ke de lunc tens furent endurciz  Mir N-D 55.213
♦hardened: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Jeo ne sui pas si envieilli Ne endurci en folie  S Clem ANTS 7197
( MS: c.1330 )  Mes poy de femmes avauncés sount Par les gens q’endurcy sount Par coveytyse  BIBB ROTH Poems 109.8
( s.xiv; MS: s.xiv )  Kar en mal si endurcies sunt, Ke l’em dit pur veir [...] Ke femme set plus ke deable  Against Women 44
♦experienced, tested: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Persien combatent e ly Greu endurciz  Rom Chev ANTS 4247
( MS: s.xiii )  exploratos: endurcis, esprovez  TLL ii 94

See also:

dur2  endurer2 
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