innovate
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɪnəveɪt/
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, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:, 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.
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- (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
Related terms
Synonyms
Translations
to introduce changes
Italian
Verb
innovate
Latin
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