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▪ I. ˈrenovate, pa. pple. and ppl. a.
[ad. L. renovātus, pa. pple. of renovāre: see next.]
Renewed.
c1520Barclay Jugurtha (ed. 2) 6 The name and glorie of our household by your manhode is renouate and renewed. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 17 b, To shewe that the warre was renovate without hys knowledge and assente. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 940 The king openly sware to keepe the new renouate league and amitie. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country i. 744 Of use to the community? I trust Clairvaux thus renovate and regalized..Answers that question.
▪ II. renovate, v.|ˈrɛnəʊveɪt|
[f. L. renovāt-, ppl. stem of renovāre, f. re- re- + novāre to make new, f. novus new.]
†1. trans. To renew, resume (an action or purpose). Obs.
1535Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 416 That..ye take som occasion at conuenyent tyme..to renovate the saide communycacyon..with the Frensh kyng. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 37 Then prince Edward renouating his purpose, tooke shipping againe. 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1796[see renovated below].
†b. To renew in effect, to revive. Obs. rare—1.
1553Latimer Serm. Lord's Prayer vii. (1562) 51 b, Whosoeuer..wittingly doth the selfe same sin againe: he renouateth by so doyng al those sinnes which before times were forgiuen him.
2. To renew materially; to repair; to restore by replacing lost or damaged parts; to create anew.
a1522Leland Itin. (1768) II. 42 Ethelwolde..did clerely renovate and augmentid this Abbay. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Renouate, to renew, or repaire. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. II. i. vii. §8. 140 Secondary qualities..are continually destroyed and renovated according to the changes made in that order by motions of the component parts. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 213 The ices of the Poles, then, renovate the waters of the Sea, as the ices of mountains renovate those of the great rivers. 1813Shelley Q. Mab v. 4 Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world. 1857Wood Com. Obj. Sea Shore 11 If he thoroughly renovates his blood by expelling all the impure air. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 187 These movements must be of great service in renovating the surface of the earth.
b. To restore to vigour; to refresh.
1671J. Webster Metallogr. viii. 125 It renovateth old Trees that of twenty years have brought forth no fruit. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho iv, The spirit of St. Aubert was renovated. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. xviii. (1860) 408 A little warm nourishment renovated him for a short time. 1837[see renovated below].
c. To renew on a higher level; to regenerate.
1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames ix. 281 The great object of renovating the morals of the labouring classes. 1817Chalmers Astron. Disc. v. (1852) 131 The Gospel..will renovate the soul. 1876Humphreys Coin-coll. Man. xiii. 157 The art displayed on the Persian coinage seems to have been renovated.
3. To restore (a person) to office. rare—1.
1816Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 641 They were also to renovate the members of the councils-general of department.
4. intr. To revive, recover. rare.
1790Bystander 13 [Like a fountain] scattering its translucent pearls on the drooping flowers, which renovate at their touch. 1812Henry & Isabella II. 258 His exhausted mind and body would here renovate in repose.
Hence ˈrenovated ppl. a.; renovated butter = process butter s.v. process n. 13; ˈrenovater (Ogilvie Suppl. 1855).
1796Burke Regic. Peace i. (1892) 56 A very active preparation for renovated hostility. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 217 The travellers now moved forward with renovated spirits. 1843J. Martineau Chr. Life I. ix. 125 Christ..indulging in no dreams of a renovated world without, till [etc.]. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxviii. (1856) 352 Today..the gulls were flying over the renovated water. 1899, etc. [see process butter s.v. process n. 13]. 1906Daily Chron. 13 Sept. 5/2 Mr. Hehner went on to explain the nature of American renovated butter. He said that sometimes butter ‘went off’, and it was then melted down and the sour milk run off and replaced by pure milk and cream. 1937Harvey & Hill Milk Products iii. 178 Renovated butter. Butter which has become unfit for human consumption is treated in many countries by a process which is said to render it suitable for such consumption. Such methods, however, are not practised in Great Britain. |