(verb) : per-dūro, āvi, ātum, 1, and n.
* Act., to make hard, to harden (late Lat.): teneras plantas,Prud. Psych. 447.
* Neutr., to last or hold out, to endure (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: obduro, perfero),Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 27: perdurare non posse,Suet. Ner. 24: perdurandi pervicacia,Plin. 17, 20, 34, § 147: longum probitas perdurat in aevum,Ov. Med. Fac. 49: mora perduratura,Stat. Th. 1, 142: non perdurasse in senectutem,Sen. Ben. 7, 28: cotidie unanimiter in templo,abide, continue,Vulg. Act. 2, 46.

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