- a variation of inure.
enure
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Has not Spenser his law-terms: his capias, defeasance, and duresse; his emparlance; his enure, essoyn, and escheat; his folkmote, forestall and gage; his livery and seasin, wage and waif?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
France could not fail to understand that the breaking up of the English monopoly of the American trade would enure to her own benefit.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
To enure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough, and appear fresh.
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by J P Kemble
I like your late Englishe Hexameters so exceedingly well, that I also enure my penne sometimes in that kinde….
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
Or did the crime of Richard, though punished in him, enure to the benefit of Henry?
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
With none of these changes had Disraeli’s personal action much to do, but they all enured to the benefit of his party, they all swelled the tide which bore him into office in 1874.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
For, enured to the cold, the husky knows no winter shelter and needs none, sleeping curled, nose in bushy tail, in a hole dug in the snow, through the bitter nights without frost bite.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
Our constant life out of doors had enured us to hardships and made us impervious to fatigue.
From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt
There is Marpesia, through her fruitfulness, inexhaustible of men, and men through her barrenness not only enured to hardship, but in your arms.
From The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
The fruits of victory enured to them, quite as much in consequence of the active combination of the partisan captains, as by the vigor of their own arms.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
For minor offences the bishops were empowered to imprison during pleasure and fine at discretion—the fine enuring to the royal exchequer.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
It became established law that an action of debt would only lie upon a consideration actually received by and enuring to the benefit of the debtor.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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