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Inveterate Friends In Vet Uh Rut Adjective Firmly Established Habitual Middle

Inveterate is an adjective meaning firmly established by long habit or practice, or habitual.

Inveterate es un adjetivo que significa firmemente establecido o habitual.

Front inveterate \in-VET-uh-rut\
Back adjective
Firmly established; habitual.

[From Middle English, from Latin inveteratus, past participle of inveterare (to grow old), in-, + vetus, stem of veter- (old). Ultimately from Indo-European root wet- (year) that is also the source of such words as veteran, veal (in the sense of yearling), and veterinary (relating to the beasts of burden, perhaps alluding to old cattle).]

"Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd." - John Dryden; Threnodia Augustalis; 1685.

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