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firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. A. Tucker.

Old; long-established. [Obs.] It is an inveterate and received opinion. Bacon.

In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.

Inveteracy. Sir T. Browne.

The act of making inveterate. [R.] Bailey.

To breed; to nourish. [R.] W. Montagu.

Quality or state of being invulnerable.

Incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury. Neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright arms. Milton.

Invulnerability.

Invulnerable.

Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon.

Irrecoverable. -- Ir`re*cu"per*a*bly, adv.

Unregeneracy.

An unregenerate state. [Obs.]

Not remunerable; not capable of remuneration.

Having the nature of an isothere; indicating the distribution of temperature by means of an isothere; as, an isotheral chart or line.

Capable of being iterated or repeated. [Obs.]

Iteration. [Obs.]

Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo. Bacon.

To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice. Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared. Milton.