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/ˈɪnəvˌeɪt/ /ˈɪnoʊvˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

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."

Innovate v. i. To introduce novelties or changes; sometimes with in or on. "Every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate."

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Etymology of 'Innovate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Innovate" Quotes from Famous Books

... sooner. Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent ...

— Essays - The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. - Verulam Viscount St. Albans • Francis Bacon

... 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