Inveterate vs Customary - What's the difference?
inveterate | customary |
Old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.
* 1843 , , book 1, ch. 3, "Manchester Insurrection":
* 1911 , Morrison I. Swift, "Humanizing the Prisons," The Atlantic :
(of a person) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 45:
Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
* 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 15:
(obsolete) To fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.
* 1622 , , The History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh :
* 1640 , Edward Dacres, translation of The Prince by , Chapter XIX [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15772]:
* 1851 January, author unknown, "The Philosophy of the American Union, in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review , page 16:
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
*1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
*:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
As adjectives the difference between inveterate and customary
is that inveterate is old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit while customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.As a verb inveterate
is (obsolete) to fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.As a noun customary is
a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.inveterate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a Heaven's radiance of justice, prophetic, clearly of Heaven, discernible behind all these confused worldwide entanglements, of Landlord interests, Manufacturing interests, Tory-Whig interests, and who knows what other interests, expediencies, vested interests, established possessions, inveterate Dilettantisms, Midas-eared Mammonism.
- In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away.
- [S]he offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor relented.
- A man of mild manners can form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty
Synonyms
* deep-rooted * ingrained * ineradicable * radicatedAntonyms
* casualVerb
(inveterat)- "the vulgar conceived that now there was an end given, and a consummation to superstitious prophecies, the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men, and to an ancient tacit expectation which had by tradition been infused and inveterated into men's minds."
- "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. "
- "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."