- a variation of inure.
enure
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All the pilgrims—men, women, and children—are submerged en chemise, and the saturated linen is carefully wrapped up and preserved as a burial-dress that shall enure for salvation in the realms of death.
From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake
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
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
Every reservation for the benefit of British subjects should enure for the benefit of subjects of other powers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
Scarce this right hand the mouth with diet feedeth; So that it may no painfull worke endure, 275 Ne to strong labour can it selfe enure.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
So much are men enured in their miserable estate, that no condition is so poore, but they will accept; so they may continue in the same.
From Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton
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
Dumouriez, with a weak and ailing constitution in his childhood, enured his body for war.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
The tender solicitude of her mother, her childlike grief, and her firm belief in the real guiltlessness of her daughter, touched even the custodians of the Tombs who are enured to scenes of pathos.
From The Gilded Age, Part 6. by Charles Dudley Warner
We were enured to dangers and terrible hazards, these we were prepared to meet, nor did we encounter anything equal to the flood of the week before.
From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt
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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