Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
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Thanks to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day, I'm starting to wonder whether I and every lawyer I've ever met have been using "inure" incorrectly. Of course, it never gets used except in the phrase "inures to the detriment of the plaintiff," in which phrase it's pretty meaningless anyway.
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You haven't seen a lawyer use the word "inure" in the transitive sense? One would've thought you moved in better circles.
In any event, Dictionary.com's definition of "inure"'s intrasitive sense is incomplete. It's used in two ways: (i) come into effect, take or have effect, be applied &c , or (ii) to serve to the use or benefit of (e.g., the donation inured to the benefit of the charity).
Other dictionaries, perhaps even yours, include a broader definition of the intransitive sense.
