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adjective

Inveterate adj.

Old; long-established. (Obs.) "It is an inveterate and received opinion."

Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. "Heal the inveterate canker of one wound."

Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.

Malignant; virulent; spiteful.

verb

Inveterate v. t. To fix and settle by long continuance. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Inveterate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inveterate" Quotes from Famous Books

... One inveterate habit clung to the ancient race, even until long after the times of which we now speak—their unconquerable prejudice against defensive armour. Gilbride McNamee, the laureate to King Brian O'Neil, gives due prominence to this fact in his poem on the death of his patron ...

— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee

... of the more advanced and inveterate theorists set themselves again to work upon calculations regarding the laws of projectiles. They reverted invariably to gigantic shells and howitzers of unparalleled caliber. Still in default of practical experience what was the value of mere theories? Consequently, the clubrooms ...

— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne

... When that inveterate cynic, Anthony Clifton, made a will (it is not Mr. MILNE'S fault that, since he wrote his play before going out to the Front, we have had two others turning on eccentric bequests) leaving L50,000 each to two perfect strangers on the condition ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 18, 1917 • Various

... its seasons, its long days, and all its out-door look. He went about with the mind and senses of a tourist, satiating his instincts for minute and detailed observation and writing it all down; in a spirit, too, of enjoyment and discovery; and out of this satisfaction of his inveterate habits of observing and noting and walking about with no other end in view, just as if he were taking an autumn stroll in Salem, came the felicity of the English notes, which after all deductions ...

— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry

... he became a master pirate, and a famous hand at his craft, and thereafter forever bore an inveterate hatred of all Yankees because of the dinner he had lost, and never failed to smite whatever one of them luck put within his reach. Once he fell in with a ship off South Carolina—the Amsterdam Merchant, Captain Williamson, commander—a Yankee craft and a Yankee master. He slit the nose and cropped ...

— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard I. Pyle

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