Only poet. [f. prec.] trans. To make stubborn; to harden, make firm, render capable of resistance.
1820. Keats, Hyperion, II. 17. Couches of rugged stone, and slaty ridge Stubborn’d with iron.
1874. D. Gray, Poet. Wks., 27. These twenty had themselves inured And stubborned to perfection.
1902. F. Thompson, in Academy, 12 April, 378/1. Who must call on the cannon to compact The hard Dutch-stubborned land.
