Crossword clues for inveterate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inveterate \In*vet"er*ate\, v. t.
To fix and settle by long continuance. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
Inveterate \In*vet"er*ate\, a. [L. inveteratus, p. p. of inveterare to render old; pref. in- in + vetus, veteris, old. See Veteran.]
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Old; long-established. [Obs.]
It is an inveterate and received opinion.
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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.
--Shak. Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
--H. Brooke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit. 2 (context of a person English) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker. 3 malignant; virulent; spiteful. v
(context obsolete English) To fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.
WordNet
Usage examples of "inveterate".
Nor, except their inveterate habit of poaching on Acadian fisheries, had the people of New England provoked these barbarous attacks.
He beheld with inveterate hatred all those who might remember his former obscurity, or censure his present conduct.
But the Doge Species, with the inveterate habit of merchants, had designed their equipment with a cheeseparing attitude.
Lucy, however, was reluctant to consider a second marriage after the romantic happiness of her first, and Dolley, though an inveterate matchmaker, did not urge her.
The terrible and inveterate tyranny of the Incas Ccapac of Peru, which had its seat in the city of Cuzco, commenced in the year 565 of our Christian redemption, Justin II being Emperor, Loyva son of Athanagild the Goth being King of Spain, and John III Supreme Pontiff.
During the first age of the conquest, they suspected the loyalty of the Catholics, whose name of Melchites betrayed their secret attachment to the Greek emperor, while the Nestorians and Jacobites, his inveterate enemies, approved themselves the sincere and voluntary friends of the Mahometan government.
The princes of the empire assembled in the diet, solemnly exhorted the emperor to declare war against the French king, who had committed numberless infractions of the treaties of Munster, Osnabruck, Nimeguen, and the truce, invaded their country without provocation, and evinced himself an inveterate enemy of the holy Roman empire.
Timon, who probably from his affected spleen more than an inveterate malice, was denominated the manhater, embraced Alcibiades with great fondness.
An inveterate leucorrhoea is not exactly a venereal disease, and I have heard people in London say that it was rarely contagious.
But, being inveterate pranksters as well as serious artists, the challenge began to grow on them.
Inveterate sceptics must be given the chance to follow your reasoning, to duplicate your experiments and see if they get the same result.
I punted, and with such inveterate bad luck that in less than an hour I lost seven hundred sequins.
But, even with these advantages, he quickly reduced his congregations to a determined and inveterate rump of faithful souls who felt that without Presbyterianism, even on this level, life was not worth living.
Inveterate murderers, audacious burglars, bloodthirsty bushrangers, were the ruling triumvirate, the scour of old Europe, called Vandemonians, in this bullock-drivers' land.
The second earl of Glamis, known as Earl Beardie, was an inveterate card player.