10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OBDURE»
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The Poetical Works of John Milton
This word, occurring once more in Milton's poetry, is finely and repeatedly used
by Bishop Hall, Milton's contemporary, in the sense of to make obdurate ; and the
verb obdure, with other examples of it also, has now a place in the dictionary of ...
John Milton, Henry John Todd, 1826
4.2.32 obdure] obdurate. Lucas notes this as a "rare Heywoodian word" (147). Cf.
Hey wood The Silver Age "neither obdure heaven, relentlesse sea, / Nor the rude
earth will pitty" (3:144); The Bronze Age "The third that followes we finde more ...
William Rowley, Thomas Heywood, Michael Nolan, 1997
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Walker remodelled, a new critical pronouncing dictionary of ...
To OBDl/'C'E=ob-duc4', v. a. To draw over, as a covering. — See Ob-. To Ob
duct7, v. a. To obducc. Ob-duc'-fnn, 89 : s. Tlie act of drawing over. OBDURACY,
OBDURATE, &c— See In the ensuing class. To OBDURE=ob-durt' ...
Benjamin Humphrey Smart, John Walker, 1836
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Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
n. s. [from obdure.] Hardness ; stubbornness. Even the best of us lies open to a
certain dead- ncss and obduredness of heart. Seasonable exhortation shakes off
this peril. Bp. Hall, Christ. Mystical, § 23. Obe'dience. n. s. [obedience, French ...
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Notes and Queries: For Readers and Writers, Collectors and ...
These are confine, obdure, novel, 'paIpz'd, thrill. comraguc, in/allid, and slrage.
None but the first of these words occurs elsewhere in \Vebster. Redeem a base
life with a noble death, And through your lust-burnt vclns confine your breath.
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Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum: a Dictionary of the Gaelic ...
OBDURE, v. a. Cruadhaich, dean cruaidh-chridheach. OBDUREDNESS, 8. See
Obduracy. OBEDIENCE, s. Umhlachd, géill, striochdadh. OBEDIENT, adj. Umhal,
striochdail, éasguidh, soriaghlaidh. OBEDIENTIAL, adj. Umhlachdail, striochdail
...
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The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall: ...
As, then, on the one side, we may not so obdure ourselves, as to be like the
Spartan boys, which would not so much as change a countenance at their
beating: so, on the other side, we may not be like to those antics of stone, which
we see~ ...
Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, 1808
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The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His ...
Rut since the word of the Lord, which was delivered to them, one precept upon
another, one rule after another, by a little at once, with all assiduity and leisure,
prevailed not with them to their instruction, it shall be of force to obdure them, and
...
Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, 1808
Or if the general's heart be so obdure ' To an old begging soldier, have I here No
honest legionary of mine own troop, At whose bold hand and sword, if not entreat
, I may command a death? .1 Sold. Alas! good captain. Mira. Virginius, you have ...
Charles Wentworth Dilke, Robert Dodsley, 1816
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Select British divines, ed. by C. Bradley
The changes of judgment and mercy do but obdure it, instead of melting. — 1
Kings xii. xiii. THE SEDUCED PROPHET. Jeroboam's hand is amended ; his soul
is not: that continues still dry and inflexible. Yet, while he is unthankful to the ...
