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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
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.
[L. innovo; in and novo, to make new, novus, new.]
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.
To introduce novelties; to make changes in any thing established; with on. It is often dangerous to innovate on the customs of a nation.

Definition 2024


innovate

innovate

English

Verb

innovate (third-person singular simple present innovates, present participle innovating, simple past and past participle innovated)

  1. (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.
  2. (intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
  3. (transitive) To introduce (something) as new.
    to innovate a word or an act

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Italian

Verb

innovate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of innovare
  2. second-person plural imperative of innovare
  3. feminine plural of innovato

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Latin

Verb

innovāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of innovō