v. Obs. [f. EN-1 + HARDY a.; cf. F. enhardir.] trans. To make hardy, embolden.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 233/4. Alle the other bysshoppes that Eusebe had enhardyed.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men, III. iii. (1506), 156. To comforte and to enhardy those to do well the whiche ben weyke in speryte.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. cciv. [cc.] 630. Than this kynge … enhardyed himselfe to the warre with these barones.
