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- adjective medicine, of an injury or condition No longer fresh or recent.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
inveterate .
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Examples
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But please love his catholicism, that at his age can relish the Sartor, born and inveterated as he is in old books.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Also I pardon the world that reads the book as though it read it not, when I see your inveterated humors.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Also I pardon the world that reads the book as though it read it not, when I see your inveterated humors.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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_Sartor, _ born and inveterated as he is in old books.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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These pretended friends, the father and son, were now more inveterated against me than ever, because I followed the commission of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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And I endeavoured to follow his steps, by exhorting and praying for them to turn from their evil ways, although they were so inveterated against me, and strove to the utmost of their power to make me suffer as an evil-doer.
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The mayor was so kind as to go with me to protect me from the Romans; for they were very much inveterated against me, and said they would have my life.
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But Rome perished through her native inequality, which how it inveterated the bosoms of the Senate and the people each against other, and even to death, has been shown at large.
The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644
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Principalities, about which all the difficulties are before they are gotten: for they are attained to either by vertue, or Fortune; and without the one or the other they are held: for they are maintaind by orders inveterated in the religion, all which are so powerfull and of such nature, that they maintain their Princes in their dominions in what manner soever they proceed and live.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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Macrinus, or Julian, who because they were throughly base, were sudenly extinguished: but I will come to the conclusion of this discourse; and I say, that the Princes of our times have lesse of this difficulty to satisfie the Soldiers extraordinarily in their government; for notwithstanding that there be some considerations to be had of them, yet presently are those armies dissolved, because 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 Romane
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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