Made tough by habitual exposure. Synonyms:hardened, inured."A peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured" , "Our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"
... intemperance the cause." It is of course idle to contend that Fielding always carried a cool head. Murphy tells us that to him might justly be applied a parody on a saying concerning Scipio,—"always over a social bottle or a book, he enured his body to the dangers of intemperance, and exercised his mind with Studies." But we must in justice remember that the Augustan age of English literature concerned itself but very little with our modern virtue of sobriety. That Fielding, with the other great men ... — Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden