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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

... 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 and passion ...

— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume

... from desiring to innovate in language, or to raise interminable discussions respecting the terms in general use. Nevertheless we have here to deal with questions that lie deeper than mere names. We have to examine processes, and trace, if possible, the methods of intellectual activity pursued in all branches ...

— The Principles of Success in Literature • George Henry Lewes

... furnish labor an opportunity to develop itself, is the principle of the restriction which is dying. It is also the principle of the restriction which is about to be created. Sire, to make such regulations is not to innovate, but ...

— Sophisms of the Protectionists • Frederic Bastiat

... words. When the mind is unchained from necessity, it will range after convenience; when it is left at large in the fields of speculation, it will shift opinions; as any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot