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Webster 1913 Edition
Innovate
In′no-vate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Innovated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Innovating
.] [L.
innovatus
, p. p. of innovare
to revew; pref. in-
in + novare
to make new, fr. novus
new. See New
.] 1.
To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty;
as, to
. innovate
a word or an act[Archaic]
2.
To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize.
[Archaic]
Burton.
From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds
to
to
innovate
God’s worship. South.
In′no-vate
,Verb.
I.
To introduce novelties or changes; – sometimes with in or on.
Bacon.
Every man, therefore, is not fit to
innovate
. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Innovate
IN'NOVATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To change or alter by introducing something new. From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
2.
To bring in something new.IN'NOVATE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
innovate
innovate
English
Verb
innovate (third-person singular simple present innovates, present participle innovating, simple past and past participle innovated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p.80:
- But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
- South
- From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p.80:
- (intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
- (transitive) To introduce (something) as new.
- to innovate a word or an act
Derived terms
Translations
to introduce changes