Inveterated vs Inveterates - What's the difference?

inveterated | inveterates |

As verbs the difference between inveterated and inveterates

is that inveterated is past tense of inveterate while inveterates is third-person singular of inveterate.

As an adjective inveterated

is no longer fresh or recent.

inveterated

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Adjective

(-)

(medicine, of an injury or condition) No longer fresh or recent.

* 1859 , Emil Noeggerath, Contributions to midwifery, and diseases of women and children , page 361:

"... herb, and extr. bellad. aa. gr. 4, 2, 3, or 4 times a day, was generally successful, even in inveterated cases."

* 1996 , C. Gerber et al., "Latissimus dorsi transfer for the treatment of irreparable tears of the rotator cuff", in The Cuff , ISBN 2906077844, page 366:

"One case had to undergo re-operation because of severe subscapularis deficiency after repair of a complete, inveterated tear. "

* 2000 , W.A. Grana, "Acute Ankle Injuries" in The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine , ISBN 0632037857, page 236:

"This is, in fact, the same principle shown by Stener (1962) in his study of inveterated ruptures of the ulnar collateral ligament of the thumb,..."

Verb

(head)

(inveterate)

inveterates

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Verb

(head)

(inveterate)

inveterate

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Adjective

(en adjective)

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":

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.

* 1911 , Morrison I. Swift, "Humanizing the Prisons," The Atlantic :

In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away.

(of a person) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.

* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 45:

[S]he offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor relented.

Malignant; virulent; spiteful.

* 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 15:

A man of mild manners can form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty

Synonyms

* deep-rooted * ingrained * ineradicable * radicated

Antonyms

* casual

Verb

(inveterat)

(obsolete) To fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.

* 1622 , , The History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh :

"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."

* 1640 , Edward Dacres, translation of The Prince by , Chapter XIX [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15772]:

"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. "

* 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."

Derived terms

* inveteration

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