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STIFFEN, v.t.

1. To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to the Lord God of Israel. 2 Chronicles 36.

Stiffen the sinews; summon up the blood.

2. To make torpid; as stiffening grief.

3. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.

STIFFEN, v.i.

1. To become stiff; to become more rigid or less flexible.

--Like bristles rose my stiffning hair.

2. To become more thick, or less soft; to be inspissated; to approach to hardness; as, melted substances stiffen as they cool.

The tender soil then stiffning by degrees--

3. To become less susceptible of impression; to become less susceptible of impression; to become less tender or yielding; to grow more obstinate.

Some souls, we see, grow hard and stiffen with adversity.
1913 Definition
Stiffen (stiffen)
v. t.(?)
Stiff"en
[imp. *** p. p. Stiffened (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Stiffening.] [See Stiff.]
  1. To make stiff] to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

    Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak.

  2. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
  3. To make torpid; to benumb.
  4. To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

    Like bristles rose my stiffening hair. Dryden.

    The tender soil then stiffening by degrees. Dryden.

    Some souls we see,
    Grow hard and stiffen with adversity.     Dryden.

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Noah Says...
An attempt to conduct the affairs of a free government with wisdom and impartiality, and to preserve the just rights of all classes of citizens, without the guidance of Divine precepts, will certainly end in disappointment. God is the supreme moral Governor of the world He has made, and as He Himself governs with perfect rectitude, He requires His rational creatures to govern themselves in like manner. If men will not submit to be controlled by His laws, He will punish them by the evils resulting from their own disobedience.…
 Letter to David McClure :: October 25, 1837 




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