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, completely or slightly.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 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.

References

• “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