invet'rate

English

Adjective

invet'rate (comparative more invet'rate, superlative most invet'rate)

1. (archaic or poetic) Contraction of inveterate.
   • 1766, Thomas Sadler, “Bunch Hesperus: or, The Mock-Artist: A Burleſque Poem.”, in Poems on various subjects. To which is added, The merry miller: or, The country-man's ramble to London, a farce, page 103:

     Invet'rate' now, his Tongue not idle,

   • 1790, François Fénelon, “Book XXII”, in Gibbons Bagnall, transl., The Adventures of Telemachus, volume I, page 279, line 273:

     Invet'rate prejudice will oft prevail ;

   • 1818, Frances Burney, “Act III, scene VIII”, in Tragic Dramas, Thomas Davison, Fitzormond, page 53:

     Oh! what a pang was that!–Fitzormond, say– / Invet'rate foe,–now, art thou reconcil'd

   • 1838, Thomas Eagles, Brendallah, A Poem, Whittaker & Co., section LXXVI, page 117:

     And those who'd been so long invet'rate foes