(verb) : in-vĕtĕro, āvi, ātum, 1
* To render old, to give age or duration to a thing.
* Lit.: aquam,Col. 12, 12: allium, cepamque,Plin. 19, 6, 34, § 115.—Pass., to become old, to acquire age or durability; to abide, endure (class. but rare): non tam stabilis opinio permaneret, ... nec una cum saeclis aetatibusque hominum inveterari posset,Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5 B. and K. (al. inveterascere): ad ea, quae inveterari volunt, nitro utuntur,Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 111: vina,id. 19, 4, 19, § 53.—Part. pass.: invĕtĕrātus, a, um.
* Kept for a long time: acetum,Plin. 23, 2, 28, § 59: vinum,id. 15, 2, 3, § 7: jecur felis, inveteratum sale,preserved in,id. 28, 16, 66, § 229; so, fel vino,id. 32, 7, 25, § 77 et saep.
* Trop.
* Of diseases, sores, etc., deep-seated, chronic, inveterate: scabritiae oculorum,Plin. 24, 12, 31, § 121: ulcus,id. 29, 4, 18, § 65.— Hence, subst.: invĕtĕrāta, ōrum, n., chronic diseases: vehementius contra inveterata pugnandum,Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 8.
* Mid.: inveterari,to keep, last, endure,Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5; Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 53.— Esp., in law, part. pass.: inveteratus, established by prescription, customary: mores sunt tacitus consensus populi, longa consuetudine inveteratus,Ulp. Fragm. 1, 4.
* To cause to fail, bring to an end, abolish (eccl. Lat.): notitiam veri Dei,Lact. 2, 16 fin.

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