inveterate
- Adjective. Old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.
- Adjective. (context, of a person) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
- Adjective. Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
- Verb. (obsolete) To fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.
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