Hard"en (härd"'n), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hardened (-'nd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*&ibreve;ng).] [OE.
hardnen, hardenen.] 1. To make
hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to
harden clay or iron.
2. To accustom by labor or suffering to
endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
"Harden not your heart." Ps. xcv. 8.
I would harden myself in sorrow.
Job vi. 10.
Hard"en, v. i. 1.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more
compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A.
Lincoln] has hardened into tradition.
The
Century.
2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in
either a good or a bad sense.
They, hardened more by what might most
reclaim.
Milton.
