Enure

v. [f. EN-¹ + URE, a. OF. oeuvre operation; cf. poure, POOR, a. OF. povre.]

  An earlier form of INURE, by which it is now superseded exc. in the legal sense 3 below.

  † 1.  trans. To put into operation or exercise; to carry into act; to commit (a crime). Obs.

1580.  Spenser, Let. G. Harvey, Wks. (Globe), App. ii. 709/1. I also enure my penne sometime in that kinde. Ibid. (1596), F. Q., IV. ii. 29. Ne certes can that friendship long endure … That doth ill cause or evill end enure. Ibid., V. ix. 39. Many haynous crymes by her enured. Ibid. (a. 1599), Epigr., Wks. (Globe), 587/2. But he, soone after, fresh againe enured His former cruelty.

a. 1612.  Harrington, Epigr., II. (1633), 101. T’ enure on vertuous wives such wrong suspitions.

  2.  Of persons: To bring by use, habit, or continual exercise to a certain condition or state of mind, to the endurance of a certain condition, to the following of a certain kind of life, etc. Const. to with sb. or inf.; in early use also with. Now only in form INURE, q.v.

1489.  Caxton, Faytes of A., I. xiv. 38. To enure hem self so to peyne and trauayll.

1509.  Fisher, 7 Penit. Ps., Wks. 16. They shall be enured with contynuall hatred.

1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 31. That by litle and litle they may be enured with that profitable maner of speach.

1577.  trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 106. Wee must … enure our selues to chastise them [children], if they delight to lie.

1645.  Ussher, Body Div. (1647), 334. Yet, as a Master of defence, enureth us to the conflict, by contending with us.

1675.  Hobbes, Odyssey (1677), 55. Henceforth his people let no king enure To gentle government.

1713.  Addison, Cato, II. i. Troops enured to toil.

1818.  Jas. Mill, Brit. India, I. II. vi. 202. He … enured these sentient creatures to pleasure and pain, cold and heat.

1837.  Whittock, Bk. Trades (1842), 350. To enure youths to habits of industry.

  3.  intr. Chiefly Law. To come into operation; to take place, have effect; to be available; to be applied (to the use or benefit of a person). Const. to or simply.

1607.  Cowell, Interpr., Enure signifieth to take place or effect, to be avaylable.

1642.  Perkins, Prof. Bk., i. § 69. 32. This grant shall not enure to such intent to determine the seignorie but shall enure by way of covenant.

1677.  Yarranton, Eng. Improv., 183. That all the Benefit of the said River Sharwell … shall be and enure to the several Companies named in this Act.

1765.  Blackstone, Comm., I. 401. Else the dignity enures only to the grantee for life.

1875.  Poste, Gaius, II. § 88. 210. It enures exclusively to the bonitary proprietor.

1888.  Bryce, Amer. Commw., I. vi. 84. The suspension enures to the benefit of the President, who becomes a sort of dictator.

  b.  trans. To make available; to hand over.

1736.  Carte, Ormonde, II. 205. To enure to any person or persons … any estate sold or disposed of.

  Hence † Enurement, Obs., use; practice. Enurer, Obs., one who practises or puts into operation. Enuring vbl. sb.

1611.  Cotgr., Exercice, exercise; enurement, use, practise; action, execution.

1556.  J. Heywood, Spider & F., xxvii. 243. As lawles enurers, Of verdites false or foolish.

1606.  G. W[oodcocke], trans. Hist. Ivstine, 55 a. So … did … the customable envring to the discipline of warre giue him bouldnes to put them to death.