释义 |
enharden, v. Obs. or arch.|ɛnˈhɑːd(ə)n| Also 6 inharden. [f. en-1 + harden v.] trans. To make hard, harden. fig.
1502Ord. Crysten Men v. i. (1506) 355 The dampned may by length of eternyte be enhardened. 1583Golding Calvin's Serm. Deut. lxvii. 407 Wee may well inharden our selues in our wicked customes. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §40 Nor hath conversation, age or travell, been able to effront, or enharden me. 1875Myers Poems 26 She..Whom very stripes enharden. ¶ Used in sense of enhardy.
1779T. A. Mann in Ellis Orig. Lett. (1843) 417 Your friendship for me enhardens me to try your advice on this head. |