end-stone 
end-stone (end'ston), n. One of the plates of 
a wutrh-jowfl, against which the pivot abuts. 
/:. //. K'H, i/iii. 
enducet, <' ' An obsolete form of induct: 
endue 1 (en-<lu'), t>. t. ; pret. and pp. ciidtu-d, ppr. 
i III/IIIH//. | Kiirly iiicMi. K. also rndrir, intli-ir, MOW 
' 
usually imliK -,-'< L. itnliirre, put on (an 
of clothing or ornament), clothe, deck, put on 
(a character), assume (a part) : see inilur 1 . Ct. 
endue?, with which </< ' i partly confused.] 
To clothe; invest: same as indue 1 . 
Endue them with thy Holy Spirit. 
Hook of Common TVoj/er (English). 
Thus by the organs of the eye and ear, 
The soul with kuowh-ilue ilotli tiiTBrlf endue. 
SirJ. Davia, Immortal, of Soul, xv. 
endue 2 (en-du'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. endued, ppr. 
enduing. [Early mod. E. also endew ; a variant 
form of end<ne; partly confused with endue 1 , 
indue 1 .] If. To furnish with dower: same as 
endow, 1. 
Kcturne from whence ye came, and rest a while, 
Till morrow neit that I the Elfe subdew, 
And with Sansfoyes dead dowry you endew. 
Spenier, . Q., J. Iv. 51. 
2f. To furnish with a permanent fund : same 
as endow, 2. 
There are a great numberof Grammer Schooles through- 
out the realme, and those verle liberallie endued for the 
better relief of pore scholers. 
Quoted in Babees Bout (E. . T. S.), p. Iviii. 
3. To invest with some gift, quality, or faculty: 
used especially of moral or spiritual gifts, and 
thus partially differentiated from endow, 3. 
God may endue men extraordinarily with understand- 
ing as It pleaseth him. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 7. 
Learning riulurth men's minds with a true sense of the 
frailty of their persons. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 32. 
Nature was never more lavish of its gifts than it had 
been to her, endued as she was with the most exalted un- 
derstanding. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 3. 
= 8yn. 3. Kndue, Endow. Endue is used of moral and 
spiritual qualities, viewed as given rather than acquired ; 
endow, of the body, external things, and mental gifts. (See 
acquirement.) An institution or a professorship Is richly 
or fully endowed ; a person is endowed with beauty or in- 
tellect ; he Is endued with virtue or piety. 
Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued 
with power from on high. Luke xxiv. 49. 
Pandora, whom the gods 
Endow'd with all their gifts. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 715. 
endue 3 ! (en-du'), v. t. [Early mod. E. also en- 
dew; < OF. enduire, induire, indurc, bring in, 
introduce, cover, digest, P. enduire = Pr. en- 
duire, endurre, cover, coat, < L. inducere, bring 
in or on, lead in: see induce.} To digest: said 
especially of birds. 
Tis somewhat tough, sir, 
But a good stomach will endue it easily. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, v. 2. 
Cheese that would break the teeth of a new hand-saw 
I could endue now like an estrich. 
Fletcher (and another). Love's Pilgrimage, 11. 2. 
Endew Is when a Hawk dlgesteth her meat, not only 
putting it over from her gorge, but also cleansing her 
pannell. 
Latham's Faulconry (Explan. of Words of Art), 1658. 
enduement (en-du'ment), n. [A\soindncment; 
< endue 1 , = indue 1 , +"-mettt.] The act of endu- 
ing or investing, or that with which one is en- 
dued; endowment. 
enduglnet, [See dudgeon?.] Resentment; 
dudgeon. 
Which shee often perceiving, and biking in great endu- 
gine, roundly told him that if hee used so continually to 
look after her, shee would clappe such a paire of homes 
upon his head. Gratia Ludentes (1638X p. 118. 
endungeont, t. To confine in a dungeon. 
Were we endungeon'd from our birth, yet wee 
Wnnld wecne there were a sunne. 
Davies, Mirum in Modtim, p. 26. 
endurability (en-dur-a-bil'i-ti), n. [< endur- 
able : see -bility.] The quality of being endur- 
able ; capability of being endured. 
They use this irritation [of the eye] as a tst of the en- 
durability of the atmosphere within the i-lmmber. 
B. If'. Richardson, Prevent. Med., p. 336. 
endurable (en-dur'a-bl), a. [< F. endurable, < 
endurer, endure: see endure and -aWe.] 1. That 
can be endured or suffered ; not beyond endur- 
ance. 
Novelties which at first sight inspire dread and disgust, 
Income itt a few days familiar, entlurable, attractive. 
Macatilaii, Hist. Eng., ix. 
2. Durable. [Local. Eng. and U. S.] 
endurableness (cn-dur'a-bl-nes), n. The state 
of being endurable ; tolerableuess. 
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endurably (en-dur'a-bli), adv. In an endurable 
or durable manner ; so as to be endured. 
endurance (en-dur'ans), n. [Early mod. E. 
also indurance; < Of 1 , endurance, F. endurance, 
< endurer, endure: see endure and -once. Cf. 
durance.] If. Continuance; duration. 
Some of them are of very great antiquity, . . . others 
of less endurance. Spenter, State of Ireland. 
2. Continuance in bearing or suffering; the 
fact or state of enduring stress, hardship, pain, 
or the like ; a holding out under adverse force 
or influence of any kind : as, the endurance of 
iron or timber under great strain; a person's 
endurance of severe affliction. 
Patience likewise hath two parts, hardness against wants 
and extremities, and indurance of pain or torment. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, U. 200. 
I'll,' victory of endurance born. 
Bryant, The Battle-field. 
3. Ability to endure ; power of bearing or suf- 
fering without giving way ; capacity for con- 
tinuance under stress, hardship, or infliction ; 
as, to test the endurance of a brand of steel ; 
that is beyond endurance, or surpasses endur- 
ance. 
O, she misused me past the endurance of a block ; an 
oak with but oue green leaf on it would have answered 
her. Shak., Much Ado, IL 1. 
To push thee forward thro' a life of shocks, 
Dangers, and deeds, until endurance grow 
Sinew'd with action. Tennyton, (Enone. 
4t. Delay; procrastination. [Rare.] 
My lord, I look'd 
You would have given me your petition, that 
I should have ta'eu some pains to bring together 
Yourself and your accusers ; and to have heard you 
Without eiuturance further. Shot., Hen. VIII., v. 1. 
(The meaning of the word in the above extract has been 
disputed, some thinking it equivalent to durance, con- 
finement; others, to mffering.}= Syn. 2 and 3. Fortitude, 
etc. (see patience) ; permanence, persistence, continuance, 
suffering, sufferance, tolerance. 
endurant (en-dur' ant), a. [< F. endurant, ppr. of 
endurer, endure : see endure.] Enduring; able 
to bear fatigue, pain, or the like. [Bare.] 
The difficulty of the chase is further Increased by the 
fact that the Ibex is a remarkably endurant animal, and 
is capable of abstaining from food or water for a consider- 
able time. J. 0. Wood. 
endure (en-dur'), v. ; pret. and pp. endured, 
ppr. enduring. [Early mod. E. also indure; < 
ME. enduren, endeuren, induren, indotcren, tr. 
bear, suffer, intr. last, continue (tr. also as in 
L., make hard), < OF. endurer, F. endurer = 
Pr. Sp. OPg. endurar = It. indurare, indurire, 
tr., bear, < L. indurare, tr. make hard, intr. 
become hard, ML. bear, endure, < in, in, + 
durare, make hard, become hard, last, etc., < 
durus, hard: see dure.] I. trans. If. To make 
hard ; harden ; inure. 
Therfore of whom God wole he hath mercy, and whom 
he wole he endurith. Wycltf, Rom. ix. 18. 
That age despysed nicenesse value, 
Enur'd to hardnesse and to homely fare, 
Which them to warlike discipline did trayne, 
And manly limbs endur'd with little care 
Against all hard mishaps and fortunelesse misfare. 
Spenter, F. Q., IV. viii. 27. 
2f. To preserve ; keep. 
Somer wol it [wine] soure and so confounde, 
And winter wol endure and kepe it longe. 
Palladiui, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 90. 
3. To last or hold out against ; sustain without 
impairment or yielding ; support without break- 
ing or giving way. 
After that the kynge Pignoras smote in to the stour 
with his swerde in hotide, and be-gan to yeve soche strokes 
that noon armure hym inyght emture. 
Merlin (E. E. T. R.), iii. 589. 
Tis In grain, sir : 'twill endure wind and weather. 
Shot., T. N., 1. 5. 
Thou canst fight well ; and bravely 
Thou canst endure all dangers, heats, colds, hungers. 
Fletcher, Valentlnian, iv. 4. 
Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, 
As might the strokes of two such arms endure. 
Dry* /. 
4. To bear with patience ; bear up under with- 
out sinking or yielding, or without murmuring 
or opposition ; put up with. 
We shalbe able to brooke that which other men can in* 
dnre. HaUuyt't Voyaget, I. Hi. 
Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes. 
2 Tim. II. 10. 
Neither father nor son can ever since etulure the sight 
of me. Steele, Taller, No. 25. 
Square windows, round Ragnsan windows, might well 
be endured. B. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 253. 
5. To undergo ; suffer ; sustain. 
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with 
sons. llfii. xll. 7. 
endways 
And since your Goodlineu admit* no blot, 
still let your Virtue too indure no stain. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 211. 
How small, of all that human hearts endure, 
That part which lawn or kings can cause or cure. 
Johiuon, Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller. 
And I, in truth (thou wilt bear witness here), 
Have all In all endured as much, and more 
Than many just and holy men, whose names 
Are register d and calendar d for saints. 
Tennytm, 8t. Simeon Stylltea. 
Of. To continue or remain in ; abide in. 
Absteyne you stithly, that no stoure fall ; 
And endure furthe your dares at your dere ese. 
lleltruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2661. 
The deer eiulureth the womb but eight months. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
Syn. 4. To brook, submit to, abide, tolerate, take pa- 
tiently. 
n. intrans. If. To become hard ; harden. 
Alsike is made with barly, half mature 
A party grene and uppon repes honnde 
And In an oven ybake and made to endure. 
Palladiui, Husbondrie (E. E. T. B.), p. 163. 
2. To hold out ; support adverse force or influ- 
ence of any kind ; suffer without yielding. 
So that wee may seen apertely, that jif wee wll be gode 
men, non enemye ne may not endurrn ajenst us. 
Mandetillr, Travels, p. 261. 
He was so chaufed whan It was a-boute the houre of 
noone that nothinge rnyght agein hym endure. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), III. 549. 
A courage to endure and to obey. Tennyum, Isabel. 
3. To continue ; remain ; abide. 
Fre am I now, and fre I wil endure. 
Political Poem*, etc. (ed. Furnlvall), p. 62. 
Nowe schalle thou, lady, belde with me, 
In blisse that schall euere in-dowre. 
York Playt, p. 495. 
Some would keep the boat, doubting they might be 
amongst the Indians, others were so wet and cold they 
could not endure, but got on shore. 
S. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 47. 
Fresh be the wound, still-renew'd be its smarting, 
So but thy image endure In its prime ! 
it. Arnold, Faded Leaves, Separation. 
4. To continue to exist ; continue or remain in 
the same state without perishing; last; per- 
sist. 
The Lord shall endure for ever. Ps. Ix. 7. 
The Indian fig, which covers acres with its profound 
shadow, and enduret while nations and empires come and 
go around its vast circumference. 
Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 121. 
= 8yTL To last, remain, continue, abide, bear, suffer, hold 
out. 
endurementt (en-dur'ment), n. [< OF. endiire- 
ment = lt. induramentojindurimento; as endure 
+ -ment.] Endurance. 
Certainly these examples [Regulus and Socrates) should 
make us courageous in the emlurcment of all worldly mis* 
ery, if not out of religion, yet at least out of shame. 
SoutA, Works, VIII. Ix. 
endurer (en-dur' er), n. 1. One who endures, 
bears, suffers, or sustains. 
They are very vallaunte and hardye, for the most part 
great endurours of cold, labour, hunger, anil all hardiness. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
2. One who or that which continues long, or re- 
mains firm or without change, 
enduring (en-dur'ing), p. a. [Ppr. of endure, 
i'.) Lasting; permanent; unchangeable: as, 
an enduring habitation. 
Ah, vain 
My yearning for enduring bliss of days 
Amidst the dull world's hopeless, hurrying race. 
William Xorru, Earthly Paradise, III. 340. 
It Is now known that the colouring principle of the My. 
tilus Is so endurin'j that it is preserved when the shell 
itself is completely disintegrated. 
Uanrin. Geol. Observations, 11. 209. 
Cau I have any absolute certainty that what seem to me 
to be the feelings of an enduring " me " may not really be 
those of something utterly unknown ? 
Uirart, Nature and Thought, p. 25. 
enduring (en-dur'ing), prep. [ME. enduryng; 
ppr. of endure, r., used like during, prep.] Dur- 
ing. [Old Eng., and local U. S.] 
Ther to warde and kepe hir faders tresoure ; 
Knduryny hir life. 
Rom. of Parttnay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 4829. 
enduringly (en-dur'ing-li), odr. Lastingly; for 
all time. 
Already at the end of the first Punic war some eminent 
Romans were in their full manhood, whose names are en- 
duringly associated with the events of the second. 
Dr. Arnold, Hist. Rome, xlli. 
endnringness (en-diir'ing-nes), n. The quality 
of enduring; durability; permanence. H. Spen- 
cer. 
endways (end'waz), a<fr. [< end + -ways for 
-wise.] Same as endwise. 
