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on; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.

Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.

Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. "Insulted as a cit". Johnson Which past endurance sting the tender cit. Emerson.

Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [Archaic] Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden.

Endurance. [Obs.] South.

To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.

h labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

ain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. Extolling patience as the truest fortitude. Milton. Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. Locke.

Endurance; pluck.

Capability of endurance.

Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.

The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. Shak. W…

r, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.

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Offensive beyond endurance; detestable. A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff. Dryden.

In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.; as:

Continuance; endurance. Locke.

To abuse; to treat ill. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. Shak.