adure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adūrō.

Verb

adure (third-person singular simple present adures, present participle aduring, simple past and past participle adured)

1. (obsolete) To burn up.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Such a degree of heat, which doth neither melt nor scorch, doth mellow, and not adure.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “adure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Rueda, dauer

Latin

Verb

adūre

1. second-person singular present active imperative of adūrō

Spanish

Verb

adure

1. inflection of adurir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative