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Innovate v. t. (past & past part. innovated; pres. part. innovating)

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. (Archaic)

To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize. (Archaic) "From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship."

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Etymology of 'Innovate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... this traditional form, so that the harmony, which is its spirit, be observed. The practice is indeed convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action: but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors in the exact structure of his peculiar versification. The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. The distinction between philosophers and poets has been anticipated. Plato was essentially a poet—the truth and ...

— A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays • Percy Bysshe Shelley

... either to Care or the Sagacity of Conjecture. But is there any Reason therefore to say, That because All cannot be retriev'd, All ought to be left desperate? We should shew very little Honesty, or Wisdom, to play the Tyrants with an Author's Text; to raze, alter, innovate, and overturn, at all Adventures, and to the utter Detriment of his Sense and Meaning: But to be so very reserved and cautious, as to interpose no Relief or Conjecture, where it manifestly labours and cries out for Assistance, seems, on ...

— Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) • Lewis Theobald

... it a great matter of conscience to depart from a piece of the least of their ceremonies, they be so addicted to their old customs; and, again, on the other side, some be so new-fangled that they would innovate all things, and so despise the old, that nothing can like them, but that is new: it was thought expedient, not so much to have respect how to please and satisfy either of these parties, as how to please ...

— The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments • E. E. Holmes

Words linked to "Innovate" : phase in, innovative, initiate, innovation, debut, open up