-ure Definition

ər
suffix
Act; process; condition.
Erasure.
American Heritage
Function; office.
Judicature.
American Heritage
Body performing a function.
Legislature.
American Heritage
affix
Act, process, or result.
Exposure.
Webster's New World
Agent, instrument, or scope of.
Webster's New World
State of being ____ed.
Composure.
Webster's New World
Office, rank, or collective body.
Legislature.
Webster's New World
noun

(obsolete, only in collocation in ure) Use, practise, exercise.

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verb

(obsolete) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.

The French soldiers [...] from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms. "” Sir T. More.
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Origin of -ure

  • From Anglo-Norman *eure, Old French euvre (> modern Å“uvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin -ūra

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Fr < L -ura

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

-ure Sentence Examples

  • It lies in the central plain of Yorkshire, on the river Ure near its confluence with the Swale.

  • A and B, mycelium (m), the mix t ure over the affe c ted with haustoria (h).

  • The small river Bain, joining the Ure near Askrigg, forms a pretty lake called Semerer or Semmer Water, 4 m.

  • It is pleasantly situated at the confluence of the streams Laver and Skell with the river Ure, which is crossed by a fine bridge of nine arches.

  • When the site of the Great North Road was altered, towards the end of the 11th century, a bridge was built across the Ure, about half a mile above the Roman bridge at Aldborough, and called Burgh bridge or Ponteburgem.

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