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enure, v.|ɛˈnjʊə(r)|
Also 5 enewre.
[f. en-1 + ure, a. OF. oeuvre operation; cf. poure, poor, a. OF. povre.
An earlier form of inure, by which it is now superseded exc. in the legal sense 3 below.]
†1. trans. To put into operation or exercise; to carry into act; to commit (a crime). Obs.
1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly E j a, Who neither is skilled in thyngs daiely enured. 1580Spenser Let. G. Harvey Wks. (Globe) App. ii. 709/1 I also enure my penne sometime in that kinde. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 39 b, Whereby the..dueties of Christian lyfe may be dayly enured and preserved. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. ii. 29 Ne certes can that friendship long endure..That doth ill cause or evill end enure. Ibid. v. ix. 39 Many haynous crymes by her enured. a1599― Epigr. Wks. (Globe) 587/2 But he, soone after, fresh againe enured His former cruelty. a1612Harrington Epigr. ii. (1633) 101 T' enure on vertuous wives such wrong suspitions. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 239 But us he sends..as Sovran King, and to enure Our prompt obedience.
2. Of persons: To bring by use, habit, or continual exercise to a certain condition or state of mind, to the endurance of a certain condition, to the following of a certain kind of life, etc. Const. to with n. or inf. Now only in form inure, q.v.
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon viii. 187 A fayre company, and well enewred to the warre. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xiv. 38 To enure hem self so to peyne and trauayll. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 8 Enuryng our selves to do that in dede whiche we know in woorde. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 106 Wee must..enure our selues to chastise them [children], if they delight to lie. 1638Suckling Aglaura i. i, The slave whom tedious custom has enur'd And taught to think of miserie as of food. 1645Ussher Body Div. (1647) 334 Yet, as a Master of defence, enureth us to the conflict, by contending with us. 1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 55 Henceforth his people let no king enure To gentle government. 1713Addison Cato ii. i, Troops enured to toil. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 237 The nature of their country enures them to exercise and temperance. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. vi. 202 He..enured these sentient creatures to pleasure and pain, cold and heat. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 197 He must enure himself to bear sudden and violent changes. 1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 350 To enure youths to habits of industry.
†b. In early use const. with.
1509Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. Wks. 16 They shall be enured with contynuall hatred. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions i. i. 26 Before they had..enured them selues with their [progenitors'] facions and maners. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 31 That by litle and litle they may be enured with that profitable maner of speach.
3. intr. Chiefly Law. To come into operation; to take place, have effect; to be available; to be applied (to the use or benefit of a person). Const. to or simply.
1607J. Cowell Interpr., Enure signifieth to take place or effect, to be avaylable. 1628Coke On Litt. 307 a, This shall enure by force and way of grant. 1642Perkins Prof. Bk. i. §69. 32 This grant shall not enure to such intent to determine the seignorie but shall enure by way of convenant. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 183 That all the Benefit of the said River Sharwell..shall be and enure to the several Companies named in this Act. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 469 In a Donative a Resignation to one of the Founders or Patrons of the Church..is sufficient,..for it enures to them all. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 401 Else the dignity enures only to the grantee for life. 1849J. P. Kennedy W. Wirt (1860) II. xv. 242 The cessions of land..have generally enured to the special benefit of Georgia. 1875Poste Gaius ii. §88 It enures exclusively to the bonitary proprietor. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. 84 The suspension enures to the benefit of the President, who becomes a sort of dictator.
b. trans. To make available; to hand over.
1736Carte Ormonde II. 205 To enure to any person or persons..any estate sold or disposed of.
Hence † eˈnurement, Obs., use; practice. † eˈnurer, Obs., one who practises or puts into operation. eˈnuring vbl. n.
1611Cotgr., Exercice, exercise; enurement, use, practise; action, execution. 1556J. Heywood Spider & Fl. xxvii. 243 As lawles enurers, Of verdites false or foolish. 1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Hist. Justine 55 a, So..did..the customary envring to the discipline of warre giue him bouldnes to put them to death. |