vĕtĕro

I. to make old (late Lat.): dicendo autem novum veteravit prius, Vulg. Heb. 8, 13.—P. a.: vĕ-tĕrātus, a, um, old, inveterate: mederi ulceribus veteratis, Plin. 32, 10, 52, § 141: caseus, Scrib. Comp. 140.