innovatev.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) iv. xx. 737 A desire to innovate all things..moveth troublesome men.

1572 H. Middlemore in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 6 It shulde shewe very daingerous to every State to suffer the same any waye to be innovatyd or alteryd.

1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis iv. 97 Scython who his nature innouates, Now male, now female, by alternate Fates.

1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. i. i. 22 Theology teaches..that this world..shall either be abolished by annihilation, or..be innovated, and, as it were, transfigured.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 179. ⁋5 Attempts to innovate the constitutional or habitual character.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. ix. 183 The dictates of my father were..not to be altered, innovated, or even discussed.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke Pref. (R.) If any other do innouate and brynge vp a woorde to me afore not vsed or not hearde, I would not disprayse it.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 57^v This..table being taken vp..there was presently an other innouated, with a cloth of silke.

1656 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 98 He was tried in the same way for innovating a new religion.

1667 J. Dryden Let. to Sir R. Howard in Annus Mirabilis 1666 Pref. Some words which I have innovated..upon his Latin.

1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 63 To surrender their old Charters, and accept new ones, under such Limitations and Conditions, as the King thought fit to innovate.

1967 Times Rev. Industry Oct. 86/2 Nylon..was first invented in 1928, but not innovated until 1939.

1972 Physics Bull. Feb. 67/1 (advt.) We've been innovating electrometer values like these for over 20 years.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iv. lxxix. sig. Y Those..whom..Hated his might, and glad to innouate.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. v. §5. 78 There are many who supposing themselves wiser then others, endeavour to innovate, and divers Innovators innovate divers wayes.

1658 O. Cromwell Speech 20 Jan. in Writings & Speeches (1947) (modernized text) IV. 705 Designs..laid to innovate upon the civil rights of the nations, to innovate in matters of religion.

1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 319 They innovated in the Form of Baptism, which was one of the best Fences to the true Faith.

1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 20 It can~not at this time be too often repeated, line upon line, precept upon precept..to innovate is not to reform.

1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iv. 193 Efforts have been made..to innovate on the existing condition of its people.

1877 Pusey in Daily Express 21 May We the old Tractarians deliberately abstained from innovating in externals.

1965 New Statesman 9 Apr. 561/1 There is a willing market to offset a more reluctant British industry, whose failure to innovate fast enough has certainly made the British computer industry less competitive.

1971 Physics Bull. Dec. 707/2 The view has been put forward that the very large firms, the dinosaurs of the 20th century, do not truly innovate and, indeed, may hinder innovation because they are so inflexible.

1635 G. Hakewill Apologie (ed. 3) v–vi. 338 What use of the elect shall have of the innovated world I..as yet can not find.

1698 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. i. v. 83 The Holy Professors of true Christianity, that..oppos'd themselves to the innovated Idolatry and Superstition.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Inovation Innouating.

1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 48 Their own innovating confederates.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 10 An innovating farmer, who talked of Sir Humphrey Davy, had been fairly driven out by popular dislike.

1972 C. Layton Ten Innovations i. i. 7 Study is needed of other possible tax incentives for small innovating enterprises.

1972 C. Layton Ten Innovations i. i. 12 The small innovating firm crosses a whole series of thresholds as it grows in size.