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Innovate   Listen
verb
Innovate  v. t.  (past & past part. innovated; pres. part. innovating)  
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) "From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship."






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"Innovate" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a classic author, I propose it to be naturalised by using it myself; and if the public approves of it, the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry; every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate. ...
— Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry • John Dryden

... is it possible it ever should. There is such an indefensible gradation from the most material laws to the most trivial, and from the most antient laws to the most modem, that it will be impossible to set bounds to the legislative power, and determine how far it may innovate in the principles of government. That is the work more of imagination ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume



Words linked to "Innovate" :   innovation, innovative, phase in, innovator



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