inveterate

Etymology
From, form of , from + , from , genitive.

Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) firmly established from having been around for a long time; of long standing
 * 2)  Having had a habit for a long time
 * 3) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
 * 4) * 1765–70,, 
 * This his lordship perused with a countenance, and scrutiny, apparently inveterate.
 * 1)  Having had a habit for a long time
 * 2) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
 * 3) * 1765–70,, 
 * This his lordship perused with a countenance, and scrutiny, apparently inveterate.
 * 1) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
 * 2) * 1765–70,, 
 * This his lordship perused with a countenance, and scrutiny, apparently inveterate.
 * 1) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
 * 2) * 1765–70,, 
 * This his lordship perused with a countenance, and scrutiny, apparently inveterate.
 * This his lordship perused with a countenance, and scrutiny, apparently inveterate.

Related terms

 * inveteracy
 * inveterately

Translations

 * Arabic: مُتَأَصِّل, مُتَوَاصِل, رَاسِخ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: zakořeněný, vžitý
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:, tief verwurzelt,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: ársanta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Latin: inveterātus
 * Ottoman Turkish: اسكی
 * Polish: zakorzeniony
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Arabic: عَرِيق, مُدْمِن, مُزْمِن
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Irish: doleigheasta, dobhogtha
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Polish: zakorzeniony
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: oförbätterlig,

Verb

 * 1)  To fix and settle after a long time; to entrench.
 * 2) * 1640, Edward Dacres, translation of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Chapter XIX :
 * "none of these Princes do use to maintaine any armies together, which are annex'd and inveterated with the governments of the provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire. "
 * 1) * 1851 January, author unknown, "The Philosophy of the American Union, in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, page 16:
 * "The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c."
 * "The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c."