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newadj.n.

Brit. /njuː/, U.S. /n(j)u/
Forms: Old English neow (Anglian, rare), Old English ni- (in compounds), Old English nig- (in compounds), Old English nige, Old English niowe (chiefly Anglian), Old English niua (Northumbrian), Old English niuæ (Northumbrian), Old English niuue (Northumbrian), Old English niw (rare), Old English (rare) 1600s niew, Old English–early Middle English niewe, Old English–early Middle English niwe, Old English (chiefly Anglian)–Middle English neowe, Old English (Northumbrian)–Middle English niue, early Middle English neouwe, early Middle English neuuæ, early Middle English neuwe, early Middle English nifes (genitive singular, transmission error), early Middle English noþe (transmission error), early Middle English nyuwe, Middle English neewe, Middle English neue, Middle English nev, Middle English now, Middle English nu, Middle English nuwe, Middle English nw, Middle English nyew, Middle English nyw, Middle English nywe, Middle English 1600s nowe, Middle English–1500s neu, Middle English–1500s neve, Middle English–1500s nwe, Middle English–1600s newe, Middle English–1600s nue, Middle English– new, 1500s newhe; Scottish pre-1700 neu, pre-1700 neue, pre-1700 nev, pre-1700 newe, pre-1700 niwe, pre-1700 nov, pre-1700 nu, pre-1700 nwe, pre-1700 1700s (1900s– Orkney) nue, pre-1700 1700s– new, pre-1700 (1900s– northern) nyow, 1800s niu (Shetland), 1800s– noo, 1900s– neou (Orkney), 1900s– nyou (northern).
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian nī , Middle Dutch nieuwe , niewe , niwe , nuwe , nouwe , nie , ny (Dutch nieuw ), Old Saxon niuui , niuwi , nigi , Old High German niuwi , niuwe (Middle High German niuwe , niwe , niu , German neu ), Old Icelandic nýr , Old Swedish nyr (Swedish ny ), Danish ny , Gothic niujis , ultimately < the same Indo-European base as Hittite neua- , Sanskrit nava , nāvya , Avestan nava , Persian nau , ancient Greek νέος (Hellenistic Greek (Ionic) νεῖος ), classical Latin novus , Gaulish nouiio- , Early Irish nóe , nuae , nue (compare Irish nua , Scottish Gaelic nuadh ), Old Welsh neguid , (Welsh newydd ), Tocharian A ñu , Tocharian B ñuwe , Old Church Slavonic novŭ , Russian novyj , Lithuanian naujas ; perhaps further related to the base of now adv.With use as noun compare also news n.
A. adj.
I. That has not previously existed, differs from what existed in the past, etc.
1.
a. Not previously existing; now made or brought into existence for the first time.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > newly brought into existence
neweOE
new-broached1547
new devised1548
new-invented1548
new-coined1593
new-minted1598
new-set-up1608
new-raised1614
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xxxii. 3 Cantate ei canticum nouum: singað him song neowne.
OE Phoenix 431 He getimbreð tanum ond wyrtum þam æþelestum eardwic niwe, nest on bearwe.
OE Exodus 362 Niwe flodas Noe oferlað, þrymfæst þeoden, mid his þrim sunum.
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 153 Constructio, niwe timbrung.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1110 Ðises geares me began ærost to weorcenne on þam niwan mynstre on Ceortes æge.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2675 Þa..þe king..ane neowe [c1300 Otho neuwe] burn makede.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 5494 (MED) Nywe abbeys he made vaste, þe gode aþelston.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. 255 (MED) God made alle manere thynges..And nempned names newe.
a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 1 Kings vi. 7 Nowe thanne takith, and makith a newe weyn.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 39 (MED) Men may se throught out the chirche into the neve ele.
c1525 J. Rastell New Commodye Propertes of Women sig. Civ Well mother to morow is a new day.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. iii. 55 They should remember that their religion is as newe as false.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋6 Aquila fell in hand with a new Translation.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 110 Pleas'd I am..the way to new Discov'ries make. View more context for this quotation
1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. vii, in Author's Farce 40 I have made New Words and spoil'd Old ones too.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 18 A new crop of hair grows between the old skin and the new.
1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna in Poet. Wks. (1890) 449 So each new man strikes root into a far fore-time.
1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 404 Diseases, which..consist pathologically of a new growth in the skin.
1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden xiii. 134 New towns sprang up.
1976 G. Gordon 100 Scenes from Married Life 122 Better still, reconstruct this house in its own garden and make a new garden where the house now stands.
1989 Which? Jan. 3/1 A new law..means a driver must give you insurance details after an accident.
b. Of a kind now first invented or introduced; novel, newfangled; original.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > new, novel, or not previously known
newOE
fresha1382
unhearda1382
new-founda1425
raw1448
newfanglec1450
newfangled?1531
new-fashioned1574
novile1586
modern1590
newelty1590
unheard1592
novellous1601
new-discovered1609
novelizing1625
nouvelle1650
new-type1887
edgy1976
OE Exodus 116 Niwe nihtweard nyde sceolde wician ofer weredum.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 162 (MED) Mochel habbeþ þos of uele þoȝtes, newe, diuerses, and wyluolle.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 273 (MED) Hengistus usede a newe manere of tresoun.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1354 In notyng of nwe metes and of nice gettes.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 76v (MED) Eueri dai þer ben maad arowe heedis & dartis of diuers schap and þerfore it bihoueþ þat þou practise newe craft and newe maner for to drawen out þe same hedis.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Aug. Now I haue learnd a newe daunce: My old musick mard by a newe mischaunce.
?1616 W. Goddard Satirycall Dialogue sig. Ev Newe-fashiond cloathes, I loue to weare Newe tires, newe ruffes.
1673 S'too him Bayes 9 He would imagine it was a sluice, or some newer kind of engine.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 43 A lattice-work that braced The new machine, and it became a Chair.
1818 J. C. Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. (ed. 2) 402 He composed a sort of drama, altogether new, which he called a melo-tragedy.
1879 Scribner's Monthly July 462/2 From Dresden has lately come a table-cloth quite new in conception.
1924 Lancet 31 May 1140/2 A new acoustic aid for the deaf.
1966 H. Moore On Sculpture 198 It's very difficult to see something that's new, and not a repetition of something you've already seen and responded to.
1998 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. iii. 9/5 Investors may want to take a look at a new type of savings bond.
2. Not previously known or experienced; now known or experienced for the first time.
a. Of something communicated.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective]
uncouthc897
neweOE
fremdc950
unknownOE
unseena1200
unketha1275
unkedc1275
strange13..
disguisyc1330
unknowedc1380
aliena1382
unhearda1382
unkenneda1400
ranishc1400
ignorant?a1475
unwittenc1485
unbekend1513
unacquainted1551
unkent1579
unwitted1582
unfamiliar1593
unsounded1594
incognite1609
ignote1623
in the urn1658
unfathomed1659
unexperienced1698
unknown-of1700
undiscovered1707
inaudite1708
darka1727
unascertained1751
unwist1757
unknownst1805
unbeknown1824
unbeknownst1848
unsampled1890
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) i. xxv. 60 Fæger word þis syndon... Ac forðon hi neowe syndon & uncuðe, ne magon we nu gen þæt þafian.
OE Beowulf 2898 Lyt swigode niwra spella.
OE tr. Alexander's Let. to Aristotle (1995) §6. 226 Ond nu ðas niwan spel ic þe ealle in cartan awrite.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2052 Seodðen com..neowe tidinde.
c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 498 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 15 (MED) He bi-gan to singue þat newe song bi-fore alle þat þare were neiȝ.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1286 Ðo herde abraham steuene fro gode, Newe tiding.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 209 (MED) Men seyn all weys, þat newe thinges & newe tydynges ben plesant to here.
1483 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 159 As for tydyngs seyns I wrote to yove we her noun newe.
1553 R. Burrant in tr. Preceptes Cato (new ed.) sig. A3 Be neuer besy, newe tidynges to fynde, Suche nouelte, causethe oft offence.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Acts xvii. 20 May we know what this new doctrine is that thou speakest of? For thou bringest in certaine new things to our eares.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 30 Your part is not so much to bring it forth as a new matter, as to keepe it up as a knowne good.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 855 Strange point and new! Doctrin which we would know whence learnt. View more context for this quotation
1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 150 How absurd..that venerable non-sense should be prefer'd before new-sense.
1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. xiv. 170 Another went on, till we had heard ten of them, and in every one something new.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 224 Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows.
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 30 Prophecyings horrible and new Are heard among the crowd.
1885 Spectator 8 Aug. 1048/1 There is nothing new in this article, but the points are pertinently put.
1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. xviii. 150 You can't tell me anything new about a Czech; I'm an Austrian.
1984 V. Brome Freud & his Disciples iv. 55 The disciple had nothing really new to say because the Master had already said it all before.
1991 A. Tan Kitchen God's Wife xi. 191 Good even though she is uneducated, she is quick to learn something new.
b. Of a feeling, experience, etc.
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OE Cynewulf Elene 869 Hæfdon neowne gefean mærðum gemeted.
OE Blickling Homilies 135 Him ne wæs nænig earfoþe þæt lichomlice gedal on þære neowan wyrde.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 361 In þe vttermeste endes of þe world falleþ often newe meruailles.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 66 His falshed brouht vs sorowe alle newe.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1240 Neȝis þam a-nothire note as new as þe first.
c1450 (c1370) G. Chaucer Complaint unto Pity 29 Yet encreseth me this wonder newe [v.r. nuwe].
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii*v I suld fynd thame new notis for this ix yeir.
1596 in Facs. National MSS Eng. (1865) III. lxxiv Madame, as I haue na neu occasion sa haue I na neu thing to writt at this present except a neu tout in ane auld horne.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. vi. x. f. 21v Release me from those worse then seruile bands, Which new vaine hopes haue bred.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 334 Where ought we hear, and curious are to hear, What happ'ns new . View more context for this quotation
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. ix. 306 The successes of war are not new.
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 734 'Twere new indeed to see a bard all fire.
1874 J. Parker Paraclete xviii. 295 Opposition is nothing new as applied to Christian faith.
1899 J. Smith Christian Char. 196 The new religious consciousness of acceptance and union with God.
1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. iii. 244 He looked up with a new expression in his eyes.
1956 I. Murdoch Flight from Enchanter iv. 60 Rosa was surprised at the speed with which she accustomed herself to the new situation.
1991 Bicycling Feb. 50/2 Incensed and frightened by reports of global warming..we're feeling a new sense of urgency and responsibility for the fate of our world.
c. Of a thing or person not previously encountered, a country not previously known of, etc.
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OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xxxii. 17 Hi offrodon deoflum & na Gode, ðam godum ðe hi ne cuðon; niwe comon, ðe hyra fæderas ne wurðodon.
c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 39 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 221 Ate laste ore suete louerd forþere us gan lede. So þat we i-seiȝen a newe lond.
?1520 (title) Of the newe landes..founde by the messengers of the kynge of portyngale.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 186 Mir. O braue new world That has such people in't. Pro. 'Tis new to thee. View more context for this quotation
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §477 So you may have great Varietie of New Fruits, and Flowers yet unknowne.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 290 To descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. View more context for this quotation
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 726 Besides these I have a new species of Trochites and Entrochi, which has six inlets in the hollow, as the latter has but five.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 113 What signifies..the People of Spain seeking new Countries?
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 168 This new kind of Arithmetic, which he had never heard of before.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 239 The new acquaintance soon became a guest.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. i. 39 We were going quite a new road.
1879 J. Morley Burke 21 In East and West new lands were being brought under the dominion of Great Britain.
1902 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 82 i. 655 The author has discovered a new class of diastases which he calls ‘reductases’.
1956 Mineral. Mag. 31 20 The Crestmore material must be regarded as a new species.
1980 W. Abish How German is It? iii. i. 57 Why don't you come and visit me... Meet new people.
d. Strange, unfamiliar (to a person).
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a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 121 I woot yow thynketh straunge..for it is to yow newe.
c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 24 (MED) Now at arst redoute me of þat game Þat is not newe to me ne vnassaied.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ix. sig. Ll5 But nothing new to him was that same paine, Ne paine at all.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 231 Alacke, how new Is husband in my mouth. View more context for this quotation
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 25 Nothing in such a case could be new unto him.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 613 Here matter new to gaze the Devil met Undazl'd. View more context for this quotation
1710 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. June (1965) I. 41 We go, next week, into Wiltshire, which will be quite a new world to us.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 710 New to my taste, his Paradise surpassed [etc.].
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. xi. 297 It is a sort of pain..which is new to me. View more context for this quotation
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 545 To English shopkeepers and farmers military extortion was happily quite new.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. viii. 91 The young woman..crept silently about observing the scene—so new to her, fresh from the seclusion of a sea-side cottage.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xliii. 208 Philip, to whom all she said was new, listened with profound but bewildered interest.
1990 Arizona Daily Star 14 Mar. c1/3 Though Tucson was new to him in those early days, young Ronstadt was not among strangers.
3.
a. Coming as a resumption or repetition of some previous act or thing; starting afresh, resurgent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > new or coming as a resumption
newOE
OE Beowulf 1789 Þa wæs eft swa ær..fægere gereorded niowan stefne.
OE Genesis A (1931) 1555 Ða Noe ongan niwan stefne mid hleomagum ham staðelian.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13723 Heo..neouwe [c1300 Otho neowe] ueht bi-gunnen.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 107 Þet is a newe cristninge.
c1375 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 3926 Whanne he escaped was, he kan nat stente For to bigynne a newe werre agayn.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1592 (MED) For-þi in forme of iugement He thoght a neu wengaunce to sent.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 34 Than there began a new batayle.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xcj Thus was he brought agayne in to a newe hope of a concorde.
1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 210 Ȝit of new tressone I can tell the tailis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 1 Tullus Auffidius then had made new head. View more context for this quotation
1674 J. Milton Paradise Lost (ed. 2) xii. 5 The Archangel paus'd..; Then with transition sweet new Speech resumes.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 78 I had a new Skirmish with him whose the Money should be.
1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum No. 7. lix. 492 Sophia..took leave of Mrs. Gibbons; but Harriot, who had a new conquest in view, was unwilling to go so soon.
1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 529 Upon a motion for a new trial, it was urged [etc.].
1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 209 The quartz-mining enterprises..took a new start.
1909 Chatterbox 267/2 Every new cannonading made Moustache leap to his feet again.
1988 B. Cashman Private Charity & Public Purse (BNC) 51 A new outbreak of smallpox occurred early in 1928.
b. Restored after demolition, decay, disappearance, etc. Frequently in to make new. Cf. new moon n.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > restored > after decay, disappearance, etc.
newOE
redivivous1651
OE Phoenix 266 Feorh bið niwe..þonne he of greote his lic leoþucræftig, þæt ær lig fornom, somnað.
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 50 He..Falleð in ðat welle grund, Ðer he wurðeð [MS wurdeð] heil & sund & cumeð ut al newe.
c1390 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 546 Of spicerie..Shal been his sauce ymaked..To make hym yet a newer appetit.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 23399 (MED) Squa has our lorde be-fore vs hiȝt þat he sal new our bodis make.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 3535 Þe old Citeȝ þat he fond, he closed þam & mad þam newe.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. 43 To fordone it on o day, and in thre dayes after Edefye it eft newe.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 85v To make newe, nouare.
1528 in Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII IV. ii. 2233 [The jury] have viewed both the east and west jetty, and find..parts of the same greatly frusshid and ruffild, so that part must be made new.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxvi. sig. E4v As the Sun is daily new and old. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 110 'Till the new Ram receives th' exalted Sun. View more context for this quotation
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Seat,..to repair by making the seat new.
1842 N. Hawthorne Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure 230 You are repairing the old house, I suppose,—making a new one of it,—eh?
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 4 The new sun Beat thro' the blindless casement of the room.
1913 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 23 423 Those creative acts by which the world is made new.
1985 B. Holm Music of Failure 56 To be an American meant to move, rise out of a mean life, make yourself new.
c. Additional to that which was present before; further, renewed.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > new, further, or additional
newc1325
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 5309 (MED) A nywe ost com in to þis lond.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 527 (MED) Al day þe lorde þus ȝede his gate, And nw men to hys vyne he broȝte.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 127v (MED) Make a newe wounde in..þe lowest place on þe same side þat is wounded.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 43 (MED) A Newe masangere I wyll fforth now sende.
1544 P. Betham tr. Purlilia Precepts War ii. lxiv. L vj b Wherfore we must all wayes fyght wyth fresshe men, newe strengthes, and plentye of vytayles.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 17 I had rather cut off all old acquaintance with him,..then to seeke after newe friendship.
1580–1 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 362 He obtenit confirmatioun of his said pensioun.., with supplement of new gift and dispositioun thairof.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania iii. 476 The Emperour marking her, had inwardly new power, and might giuen him by her constancy.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 468 [They] still with vain designe New Babels, had they wherewithall, would build. View more context for this quotation
1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 13 Oct. 53 The most calamitous events..can bring no new affliction.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 4 This perception adds a new degree of probability.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 531 If he gave no new cause of displeasure.
1864 Sat. Rev. 27 Aug. 257/1 The list of possible religions is closed in France, and no one is permitted to start a new one.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover ix. 114 Every rebuff stored up new energy of will in her.
1960 J. F. Lehmann I am my Brother ii. viii. 112 I had been aware for some time that Virginia was at work on a new book.
1991 Which? Feb. 93/1 Recycled paper must be ‘topped up’ with new pulp to maintain its quality.
4.
a. Other than or replacing the former or old; different from that previously existing, known, or used; changed.Of a coinage: replacing a former monetary unit of the same name, as new franc, new penny, etc.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > new or different from that previously used
newOE
new and new1551
noo1835
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark i. 27 Quidnam est hoc quae doctrina haec noua : huæt ðæt is huælc lar ðius..niua [OE West Saxon Gospels: Corpus Cambr. Hwæt is þeos niwe lar].
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John xiii. 34 Mandatum nouum do uobis : bebod niua ic selo iuh.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) vi. 227 Ðu bist geciged niwum naman.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15324 Heo scupten heore lauerde ænne nome neowe [c1300 Otho neuwe].
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 694 Fendes fleiðing wex..To wenden men..To newe luue and to newe dred.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 265 (MED) Þe kynge made smyte newe coyne and newe money.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1975 (MED) A couenand neu ic hight to þe.
a1450 Pater Noster Richard Ermyte (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 13 (MED) Who so fro a liȝt reule turneþ to haue an heuy..newe lawe & newe lore hym is nede.
c1480 (a1400) St. Barnabas 82 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 251 Clethe ȝow in nov clethynge.
1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 150v He shall haue a newe knowlege in his soule by grace.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 31/2 in Chron. I He must turne the leafe, and take out a new lesson.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 271 From the Citie Armstat..we had a new measure of oates called Hembd.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 679 New Laws thou seest impos'd. View more context for this quotation
1707 C. Cibber Comical Lovers v. 59 That's like him, who trims an old Coach for ten Years together, when he might buy a new one cheaper.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 248 Partakers of a new æthereal birth.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 97 The Messenian legends of a new race of settlers.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 411 It was then that Ray made a new classification of birds and fishes.
1884 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. (1885) v. 147 The New Testament contains not only a new morality, it contains also a new account of human nature.
1902 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 11 128 An effort was made in 1439 to reorganize the coinage and a league formed to maintain the new mark.
1932 R. W. Jones Thomson's Dict. Banking (ed. 8) 477/2 Three new pennies weigh exactly one ounce avoirdupois.
1962 E. Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ii. 149 Yeah..go pick up the pieces and plan some new strategy.
1966 New Statesman 16 Dec. 896/3 The government has opted for a pound divided into 100 ‘new pennies’.
1984 Dance Theatre Jrnl. Feb. 46 (advt.) Alongside new dance, Channel 4 will show programmes of new art.
b. Of a person: that has succeeded another person in a specified position or function; that is the latest, or one of the latest, to have come into a certain position or relationship.
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OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) i. 8 Gemang þam aras niwe cyning ofer Egypta land.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7149 Þatt kalldisskenn genge. Þatt cumenn wass inn till hiss land An new king forr to sekenn.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 2106 (MED) Mi neowe leofmon..ich on wið luue leue.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 11370 (MED) Hii houede vnder boskes & newe kniȝtes made.
c1395 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 841 Of youre newe wyf god..graunte yow wele.
c1400 (?c1280) Old Test. Hist. in F. J. Furnivall Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 83 Þine olde frende þat þou fonded haste bileue þou for no newe.
c1455 Burgh Laws (Adv.) c. 20 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Gif ony man be maid new burges of waist lande.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxvv After theim folowed the newe erle of Surrey with the sword of estate in a riche skabard.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 12 The peple..entering vnhappelie to be refreschit in the cumpanie of thir neu techearis.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 219 To seeke new friends and strange companions.
1631 J. Smith Advts. Planters New-Eng. xiii. 28 New Lords, new lawes.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 19 June (1972) VI. 131 After dinner to my little new goldsmith's.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. iii When my new master, for in that light I then view'd him, applied himself to appease me..I begged of him..to leave me alone.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 110 The sylvan scene..finds out A new possessor, and survives the change.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xxi. 267 She had beforehand felt an inward shrinking from a new guide.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxi. 239 He'd got so used to Mr. Bentley he didn't mind him, but he's going to find it hard to get acquainted with a new minister.
1993 Spy (N.Y.) May 60/2 The Reverend Keith Tucci, the new leader of Operation Rescue.
c. That has undergone moral or spiritual (in later use also psychological, emotional, etc.) transformation.Recorded earliest in new man n.1 1a. Cf. New Christian n.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [adjective] > reformed
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corrected1557
reformed?1567
reclaimed1592
retrieved1638
reduced1697
new-leaf1899
OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 216 Ðurh Moysen wæs gesett þam ealdum mannum iu æ, & open lagu, & se leofa Hælend gebrohte us niwum mannum gife & soðfæstnysse.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. ii. 15 He make twey peplis in him silf into a newe man, makinge pees, that he reconcile bothe in o body to God by the cross, sleynge the enemytees in him silf.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxi. 24 The sede of israel is all that ere born til new life and reparaild til the sight of god.
1530 W. Tyndale Prol. Lev. in Wks. (1573) 14/2 Baptisme signifieth vnto vs repentaunce, and the mortifying of our vnruly members, and bodyes of sinne, to walke in a new life.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 31 Faith..quhilk renwis the hart and makis ane nev man.
1677 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 43 The D[uchess] of Portsmouth..they say will lead a new lyfe.
a1715 M. Monck tr. G. della Casa in Marinda (1716) 101 Unable its [sc. my soul's] lost Beauty to resume 'Till form'd again, and a new Creature made, By the same Power, that its first Being gave.
a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1772) VII. i. 19 Christians upon their repentance become new creatures.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. xi. 210 When I come back I shall be a new woman.
1890 J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ I. 104 The upward slopes of the new life are delightful, and the prospects enrapturing.
a1941 V. Woolf New Dress in Haunted House (1944) 57 She would..drop..into a hall where a miner was telling about the life in the pit, and suddenly she would become a new person.
1990 Sports Illustr. 28 May 88/3 For a couple hundred bucks they would take the old me in and spew a new me out.
d. Of a place: different from another place previously inhabited or frequented.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > other than before, different, or new
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c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. C) l. 29 Nu þu hauest neowe hus..; þin rof liiþ on þine breoste.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 287 What profiȝteþ newe lond þere þe fliȝt fleeþ nouȝt [thee]?
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 46 That our swiftwinged soules may..follow him To his new kingdome. View more context for this quotation
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 25 in Justa Edouardo King To morrow to fresh woods and pastures new.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 184 A prowling Wolfe, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey. View more context for this quotation
1732 R. Dodsley Muse in Livery 21 To some new place our steps we bend, The tedious evening out to spend.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. i. 82 'Tis easy..for a country new..To change the honours of abandoned Rome.
1871 W. Black Daughter of Heth II. viii. 122 Will you..link yourself to a desperate man, and snatch the joy that the people in this country would deny us? Let us seek a new country for ourselves.
1949 L. I. Wilder Long Winter viii. 68 They must fill the straw ticks with hay, because there was no straw in this new country.
1990 Publishers' Weekly 2 Nov. 59/2 Convincing portrayals of..the lot of German emigrants learning to cope in a new land.
†e. Inclined to change or novelty. Obsolete. rare.
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a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 161 Scho is so new of acquentance, The auld gais fra remembrance.
f. Of a nation: that has undergone a (usually political) transformation. Also: designating a native or inhabitant of such a country.
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1849 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 259 Where is the man possessed of virtue, wisdom, and genius sufficient to unite these discordant elements, and to create, as it were, a new society,—a new Germany?
1866 Old Guard 4 265/1 Here we see the principle emphatically affirmed that the organic character of the States would be after the war just what it was before... It was to preserve old America, and not to make a new America.
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. ix. 821 I had expected to find a new Russia stirring in its sleep..and I found it sinking deeper into the dope-dream of Sovietic self-sufficiency.
1964 Cambr. Rev. 24 Oct. 45/2 The ‘New Britain’..will be a world of tab collars, Mary Quant, and academic franglais, no doubt.
1990 B. Breytenbach in Weekly Mail (Johannesburg) June 5 The onus is on the ANC:..to promote the ‘New South African’.
2001 Africa News (Nexis) 29 June Even though I am somewhat strongly disposed to give New Labour's New Britain a New Stamp of Approval (having internally trashed it not so long ago in favour of a new life in the New South Africa), the behaviour of the New British themselves often leaves much to be desired.
5. With the. Designating something as different from something old, or already existing, of the same kind.
a. Designating an institution, practice, method, etc., which supersedes, revolutionizes, or revives an earlier form or version of the same kind; modern, progressive, advanced; fashionable, belonging to or characteristic of the most up-to-date trend (cf. latest adj. 3).In a number of cases this use of the new has given rise to phrases with a special meaning or application. More established compounds of this type are given separately, at Compounds 2a or as main entries (as New Academy n., etc.). See also Compounds 2b.
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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. iv. 106 He gemæne dyde þære niwan cirican, þe of Ongolcynne gesomnod wæs.
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxvi. 28 Hic est enim sanguis meus noui testamenti : ðis is forðon blod min ðære niua gewitnessæ.
OE Blickling Homilies 163 Se godspellere wæs fæstnung ægþer ge þære ealdan æ, ge þære niwan.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15159 All godess lare off eȝȝþerr boc. Off þalde & off þe newe.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 85 Þet boð þa twa laȝen, þe alde and þe nowe.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 145 (MED) I moste daunce and singe The hovedance and carolinge, Or forto go the newefot.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 3212 Þey..haunte alle þe newe gyse.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 12887 (MED) Þe ald testament hir-wit nu slakes, And sua þe neu [a1400 Fairf. now; a1400 Gött. nu] bigining takes.
c1475 Mankind (1969) 103 (MED) Ser, yt ys þe new gyse and þe new jett, Many wordys and schortely sett.
1523 M. Coverdale (title) A Worke entytled of ye Olde God and the Newe, of the old faythe and the newe, of the olde doctryne and ye newe.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 33 b According to the newe fashion.
1659 Lady Alimony i. ii That our House may be with a numerous Auditory stored; our Boxes by Ladies of quality and of the new dress croudingly furnished.
c1702 C. Fiennes Journeys (1947) 277 One with a half bedstead as the new mode, dimity with fine shades of worsted works well made up.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 12 The latter, indeed, frequently became..victims to the new system.
1877 E. Thomas tr. F. A. Lange Hist. Materialism I. 179 Averroism prepared the way for the new Materialism.
1988 You/Verve (Toronto) Summer 94/1 A decade ago, the phrase ‘the new celibacy’ sprang into being to describe a rethinking of the use of sexuality.
1993 Independent on Sunday 4 July (Mag.) 32/3 Literary genres come and go—and in some cases come again, like the New Gothic.
b. Of a thing, place, or person.
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eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iv. x. 104 Þa Scipia hæfde gefaren to ðære niwan byrig Cartaina, þe mon nu Cordofa hætt, he besætt Magonem.
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iv. vi. 95 On Luciuses dæge..com Hasterbal se niwa cyning of Cartainum on Libeum.
OE Blickling Homilies 163 Se niwa eorendel [wæs] Sanctus Iohannes.
?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Martin abbot..brohte heom into þe neuuæ mynstre.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. v. 169 (MED) Clement þe cobeler cast of his cloke And at þe newe [v.r. neowe] feire nempnide it to selle.
c1425 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Harl.) 449 Þe king..ladde him to þe newe worc, to a uayr castel & god.
c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 223 (MED) That fals Duke..stale owte of Walys..towarde the Newecastelle.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iii. 89 Whan the newe tyme shall be come.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 167 In this yere was..ended the newe worke of the Church of Westminster, to the ende of the Quire.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 2 Charles waine is ouer the new Chimney. View more context for this quotation
1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot Epist. sig. av To fire the Water-Houses, and get the New River-Water stopt, if they can.
1723 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. II. 247 Go where one will, such Heats arise, Such spiteful Animosities, As if some Lunacy was grown The new Distemper of the Town.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 272 The remainder of the old aliment will be seen mixing with the new.
1826 in E. H. Barker Parriana (1828) I. 380 It was at the time when the new jail was being built.
1918 ‘R. West’ Return of Soldier i. 7 We had done much for the new house.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Dec. b2/1 We shall not be standing shoulder to shoulder on this overpopulated globe at the end of the century as the new Malthusians have been predicting.
c. the new —— (and variants): designating a cultural phenomenon or trend thought to have matched the prevalence or success of the specified precursor; frequently in formula —— is the new ——. the new black: a colour in such vogue with clothing designers as to rival the traditional role of black as a staple or background colour for garments; (figurative) something which is suddenly extremely popular or fashionable. the new rock and roll: a cultural phenomenon, esp. a newly popular form of entertainment, considered to be as vital, dominant, or influential as the early rock music was in the 1950s and 1960s.
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1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 May c12 Fall trends: trumpet skirts,..belts,..velvet, gray (‘the new black’).
1988 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 9 Oct. l1 It's like in the 1950s, when everybody wanted to be Elvis or a rock star. Now everybody wants to be Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, or Jay Leno. Comedy's the new rock-and-roll.
1991 Metropolitan Home Apr. 131/1 Eurostyle is the new contemporary.
1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 June c7 He makes a good case for rap as the new rock-and-roll.
1994 Observer (Nexis) 20 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 5 The demand will come forth: give us the new ‘new rock and roll’. It could be almost anything—architecture, haute cuisine, train-spotting—but my money's on sport.
1996 Daily Mirror (Electronic ed.) 25 Oct. All the fashion magazines keep saying that brown is the new black.
1998 Church Times 11 Sept. 12/3 An upcoming BBC series on the Roman Catholic Church..was enough of a peg for a piece arguing that religion is the new atheism, or whatever television people say when they want to express fashionability.
1999 Guardian 11 Feb. ii. 17/5 (heading) Onions are the new black... Suddenly onions are everywhere.
2002 N.Y. Mag. 17 June 20/1 Underachievement is in; overachievement is out. Stupid is the new smart.
6. In the names given to cities, countries, etc., after the name of an earlier counterpart. Also: in the names for inhabitants of countries, provinces, etc., whose names include the word New.
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lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1110 To Pentecosten forman siþe his hired on þam niwan Windlesoran heold.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 534 (MED) Þere he rerede is heued toun, þat londone icluped is, Ac so ne clupede he him noȝt, ac þe niewe troye.
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 179 I seiȝ þe Cite of newe Ierusalem comande adoune from heuen atiffed of god as þe spouse is honoured of hir lorde.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 57 Bruyt, þe firste kyng of Bretouns, bulde and arerede þis citee..and cleped hit Troynewiþ and Trinouantum, þat is, New Troye.
1455 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 203 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 To the Mayralte and Commonalte of the Cite of Newe Sarum, the Commone Counsayll and Assemble of the Mayre.
a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) 25 (MED) Now þat London is nevenyd hatte þe New Troie.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 68 Richard Poure..first Erector of the Cathedrale Chirch of New-Saresbyri.
1553 R. Eden (title) A treatyse of the newe India, with other new founde landes and Ilandes.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vii. ii. 498 Where now they have discovered a kingdome they call New Mexico.
1637 P. Heylyn Antidotum Lincolniense iii. 12 Not a New-Englander of them all, could have done it better.
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 117 Shall I invite to be my spouse, Some one I have forbid my house? Some saucie, proud New-Indian Jack.
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 280 They cannot Trade into the..South West Coast of New-Spain.
1761 Charac. in Ann. Reg. 10/1 There are a greater number of noblesse in New France than in all the other colonies put together.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 438/1 These concussions, which are very common about New Madrid, are felt..from New Orleans to the mouth of the Missouri.
1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing 150 I shall..not allow a single New Brunswicker to come any where within gun-shot.
1874 C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson I. viii. 214 The little New Caledonian remained at Taurarua.
1898 Dict. National Biogr. LIII. 474/1 The colonists selected for their settlement a site on which they conferred the name of New Plymouth.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 469/1 Many New Caledonians having black skins and woolly hair with Polynesian superiority of limb.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 696/2 The newcomers spoke languages of the Austronesian..family, which were in time adopted by most of the coastal New Guineans.
1995 Leisure Managem. Jan. 14/1 The Grade II listed Fort Perch Rock at New Brighton is trapezoidal.
II. Fresh, young, recent.
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a. Of recent origin or growth; that has not as yet existed for long; †young (obsolete). Also, of an event or point in time: recent, occurring not long ago.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adjective]
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fresha1398
hot?a1400
novel1405
recent?a1425
lately1581
neoterical1588
neoteric1596
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) lxviii. 31 (32) Placebit deo super uitulum nouellum : licað gode ofer caelf niowe.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. lxv. 292 Genim þone neowran wyrttruman, delf up.
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) xxv. 57 Gif hit æfre gebyreð þæt heo blodes onbirigð, heo forgit sona hire niwan taman, & gemonð þæs wildan gewunan hire eldrana.
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 451 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 312 Þe Mone..þe ȝwyle heo is neowe riȝt.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 739 Bot on þatow [hast] newe dobing & art cleped kniȝt.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 856 She semede lyk a rose newe Of colour.
c1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 445 Never yit, syn that the world was newe..ne fond y better.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1460 (MED) He had nite him a nerand noȝt bot o new time.
?1507 C. Brandon et al. Iustes of Maye (de Worde) sig. A.vv At the felde ende was pyght..A pauyllyon on the grasse fresshe and nue.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. 587 Howe is it thus, in oure newe knyghthode, that [etc.]?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 39 The Exile of her Minion is too new, She hath not yet forgot him. View more context for this quotation
1661 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 139 A new chemlay for the hall of Lundy of the newest fashion.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xi. 54 You may take your secret-keeping Hannah with you, or whom you will of your newer acquaintance.
1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 25 Rival Nations, especially the new States of America.
1845 T. Milner Gallery of Nature 642 The new red sand stone and carboniferous systems in Leicestershire.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind 17 The two-handed or French alphabet, generally used in England, is of newer date.
1963 R. D. Symons Many Trails iii. 26 This was April, and new grass meant about the end of May.
b. Of food or drink: freshly made, produced, or grown; not yet old or stale; (spec. of a fruit or vegetable) belonging to the fresh crop or growth, harvested early in the season.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > from new or fresh crop
newOE
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. ix. 17 Neque mittunt uinum nouum in utres ueteres : ne sendas win niwe in byttum aldum.
c1300 St. Brendan (Harl.) 146 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 223 (MED) Hi [sc. sheep] eteþ þerbes nue, as hi springeþ of þe gunde [read grounde].
c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 99 With wardons winlich and walshe notes newe.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. vii. 283 (MED) Be þat it neiȝide ner heruest newe corn com to chepyng.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 360 Nwe ale, celia.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 2091 (MED) For new wyne, not fynyd..The trew taste is moste suerte.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 31 Butter, new cheis, and beir in May.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 35 I haue a venturous Fairy, that shall..fetch thee newe nuts. View more context for this quotation
1609 T. Ravenscroft Pammelia 3 New Oysters, new Oysters, new Oysters new.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1008 As with new Wine intoxicated both They swim in mirth. View more context for this quotation
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lxvii. 339 A sailor having drank more new rum than he could carry.
a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 133 Lay these into a stewpan with some new-milk.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 338 Is The new cheese pressed into the bull-rush baskets?
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxii. 275 Gabe brought her some of the new cider.
1905 E. Tuite Dishes for All Seasons 22 Brussels Sprouts and new French Carrots are in the market, also Jersey new Potatoes.
1933 L. I. Wilder Farmer Boy vii. 47 The wheaty smell of new bread.
1998 New Yorker 12 Sept. 124/1 At home, the new cake waits under an aluminum cake-saver.
c. Recently made; not yet used or worn; still unimpaired by use.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > used for the first time or still unimpaired by use
newOE
unexpert?1518
virgin1627
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxvii. 60 Posuit illud in monumento suo nouo : [he] sette ðæt in byrgenne his niwe.
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke v. 36 Nemo commissuram a uestimento nouo inmittit in uestimentum uetus : ne aenig þæt esceapa from woedo niuue onsendeð on gewedo ald.
?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 11 Nim..grene diles twa handfulle..and wyl on an niwen [L. rudi] crocen.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 7394 Þeos [ships] weoren al neowe, stronge, & wel itreowe.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Judges xvi. 11 If I were bowndyn wiþ newe cordys, þe whiche weryn not ȝit in werk, I schal ben feble.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 20214 A neu smock scho did hiron.
c1430 (c1395) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 273 Sixty bokes olde and newe Hast thow thyself.
?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 117 Felowe, where hadyst þou þis hatte That ys so feyre and newe?
1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 49 Straine it through a newe canues clothe.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxix. 420 The maides were clothed in new garments.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 134 Though they swept clean at the first, as new Besomes.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 5 They choose the newest, to wit, that which is newly drawn out of the Kiln.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 22 May (1992) II. 209 The key is the newest of those two that have the wards channelled.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xiv. 134 A large bare-looking room, the furniture of which had no doubt been better when it was newer.
1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers II. v. 87 When the paper came, the new pen, the unused thickened ink, he hesitated long before he began to write.
1938 Amer. Home June 72/2 She costs fifteen hundred dollars new, or only eight or nine hundred dollars second-hand.
1967 R. Brautigan Trout Fishing in Amer. (1972) 139 There was another sign advertising new and used two and three ton hoists.
1985 D. Johnson Fiskadoro i. 8 His house was one of the fairly new ones.
d. Of deposits of snow or ice: that have recently fallen or formed.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [adjective] > consisting of newly-formed ice particles
new1599
young1678
sludgy1853
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. ii. 19 Thou wilt lie vpon the winges of night, Whiter then new snow vpon a Rauens backe. View more context for this quotation
a1748 J. Thomson Seasons (1850) 127 'Tis brightness all; save where the new snow melts along the mazy current.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. 20 Strips of heavy sheet-iron..as a shield against the cutting action of the new ice.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xviii. 132 The blue gleams which issued from the broken or perforated stratum of new snow.
1935 Handbk. Weather, Currents & Ice (Meteorol. Office) vii. 102 Between the Arctic Pack and the fast ice is a moving belt consisting partly of new ice and partly of broken ice from the pack.
1958 T. Armstrong & B. Roberts Illustr. Ice Gloss. 94 New snow, a recent snow deposit in which the original form of the ice crystals can be recognized; usually the daily new snowfall, measured in the morning.
1966 T. Armstrong et al. Illustr. Gloss. Snow & Ice 28 New ice, a general term for floating ice recently formed. It includes frazil ice, grease ice, slush, shuga, ice rind, milas and pancake ice.
1987 Down East Nov. 63/1 The new snow was soft and gleamy white and made crunching sounds underfoot.
†e. Now first used for some purpose. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > used for the first time or still unimpaired by use > now first used for some purpose
new1693
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. ii. iv. 27 [By] New Earth..I mean Earth never having seen the Sun... It is certain that this New Soil possesses..all the first Salt, which was given it at..the Creation.
f. Recently inhabited or settled; previously occupied only by indigenous people. Frequently in new country.Sometimes hard to distinguish from sense A. 2c.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > colonized > recently
new1811
1811 Sydney Gaz. 23 Feb. All those Persons to whom he has promised to give small Grants of Land in the New District of Airds, shall attend at Mr Meehan's Farm.
1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 331 In the early settlements..of new country, its progress in improvements is slow.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. viii. 113 This term, Patent..was a term in common use, throughout the new parts of the state.
1871 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 176 If he..must go to what is called New Lands, he has to be careful in his selection.
1888 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Mar. 14/1 A young fellow..was sheep-droving..away in the ‘New Country’ north of the alligator line.
a1957 S. J. Perelman in Road to Miltown (1957) 155 I..casually mentioned the name of a C.I.D. inspector over in the New Territories who might like to know that.
1977 R. Edwards Austral. Yarn 14 They'd go out and prospect the alluvial... They would walk out into the new country and pick up handfuls of soil.
8.
a. Of a person: that has recently come into a particular state, position, or relationship; newly appointed, engaged, etc.In some cases not readily distinguishable from sense A. 4b.New Australian, New Canadian: see Compounds 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adjective] > recently come into a state or position
neweOE
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xxii. 226 Swa swiðe swa þa neowan Cristnan þa get hit neoman meahton.
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Yale 401) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 176/2 Rudibus colonis : niwum geburum.
c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 326 (MED) This newe parsoun is institut in his churche.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 263 As he þat was a newe man..and knewe nouȝt þe customs.
c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 16632 (MED) The kyng..bad all folke suld be bowand to his new qweyne.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ii. 65 So departed the newe knyghtes.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 180 (MED) New officers..like ben to newe hungri flies.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxii. 217 The new brydes lay togyther in grete pleasure all that nyght.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 47 b The shot of them..scare newe soldiors and nouices of warre.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. x. ix. f. 180 Thorello was seated..directly opposite to the new Bride, whom hee much delighted to looke on.
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 63 The Evidence of our Claim shall be well attested, not by New-men, but such as..speak of their own Knowledge.
1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 314 If such a New-beginner has but a little Pride..he is soon mortify'd in the Vestry.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxii. 349 The new consuls, Mamertinus and Nevitta, hastened to the palace to salute the emperor.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xv. 194 Our new captain..came on board the hulk..and read his commission.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 20 James's parliament contained a most unusual proportion of new members.
1919 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Sept. 35 The New Americans.
1946 News Chron. 8 Aug. 1/4 It is understood that they will be part of the new intake of the U.S. Army.
1993 P. Marshall Amer. Princess (BNC) Matey, you must help Tess and Miss Norton to clean Tess's ruined gown. I am truly sorry, my dear cousin, but the girl is new, not yet trained.
b. That has only recently risen to distinction, notice, or high social standing; spec. not belonging to a well-established family. Now rare except in new man (see new man n.1 2b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > prosperous or successful > having achieved prosperity or success > recently
new1611
parvenu1828
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > parvenu
new1611
parvenu1828
snobbish1850
shoddy1862
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective] > recently famous or eminent
new1611
1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. E3v A new Man (as I am stil'd in Rome) Whom you haue dignified. View more context for this quotation
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 156 Lorenzo Raggi..is descended of a new Family in Genoa.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (1742) I. i. 4 A New Man, not that his Family was new or ignoble.
1890 Spectator 25 Jan. A family that is really ‘new’ is generally delighted to be mistaken for an old family.
1943 D. W. Brogan Eng. People iii. 81 Lord Reading was the first Marquess of Reading, a ‘new man’.
1962 Spectator 30 Mar. 392 It strikes fear, not into the manual worker so much as into the hearts of the new men.
c. Unaccustomed to a thing or activity; coming to a situation, etc., for the first time.
ΚΠ
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 123 New to the Pleasures of their native Spring. View more context for this quotation
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 861 Twelve young mules..New to the plow, unpractis'd in the trace.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. iv. 219 Begin, then, while yet youth and inexperience, new to the callousness of power and affluence, leave something good to work upon.
1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green xi. 101 Mr. Verdant Green was quite new to round bowling.
1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 10 Oct. 3/3 The Government was new to office.
1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 2 Every one was new to embarkation-duty.
1991 Brit. Jrnl. Criminol. 21 448 For the student new to criminology and ADR studies this is an excellent reference book.
d. Fresh from some place, state, or occupation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adjective] > recently arrived from a place or situation
breathing with?c1550
fresh1565
new1697
recent1718
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 263 In me 't is impious holy things to bear, Red as I am with slaughter, new from war.
1771 J. Cradock Zobeide iv. 49 Rude and untutor'd, new from nature's hand, I simply spoke my love.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women xxi, in Poems (new ed.) 127 Branches, fledged with clearest green, New from its silken sheath.
1896 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 316 It was a Thursday and I was new from the razor.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love i. 7 Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex.
1990 Gifts Internat. Nov. 41/1 New from Mill Studios is this attractive rotating display merchandiser.
e. With adverb or prepositional phrase: that has only recently arrived in the place specified (sometimes in figurative context).
ΚΠ
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxviii. 281 When your poor dear Ma died, Miss Floy, I was very new in the family.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxv. 351 Here's little Miss Flite. O you are new here; and you must come and be presented to little Miss Flite!
1949 Summary Proc. 3rd Ann. Conf. Amer. Theol. Libr. Assoc. 11 The reading machines are new on the market.
1978 L. Duncan Killing Mr. Griffin ii. 26 I'm new in town.
1996 R. Mistry Fine Balance (1997) Prol. 6 I am new in the city, can you tell me how to get to this address?
9. Having or retaining the qualities of a fresh or recent thing; full of life or energy; showing no sign of decline or decay.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > fresh or new
newa1300
moistc1390
undiffadedc1430
green1585
youthful1594
virent1595
virgin1600
unhandleda1657
virginala1659
original1756
untrite1781
unclichéd1946
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > fresh or new > ever new
never-fading1567
new1667
a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 118 (MED) Þi loue is euer iliche neowe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 16557 Þis tre..Þai fand..als neu [a1400 Gött. nu] and fress als it on stouen ware.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 8573 Ȝour mercy salle þam be newe.
1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. iiij As longe as they ben quycke and newe they ben fyne.
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 3754 Her visage that was freshe and new.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 27 A very ancient and fish-like smell: a kinde of, not of the newest poore-Iohn. View more context for this quotation
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §58 Men after long Emaciating Diets, wax plumpe, and fat, and almost New.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 19 Heav'ns last best gift, my ever new delight. View more context for this quotation
1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 11 These ever new, nor subject to Decays, Spread, and grow brighter.
1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville I. xxx. 156 All other delights, all other amusements, pall; but play, dear, divine, seraphic play, is always new.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 326 All..to pursue Still prompt him, with a pleasure always new.
a1825 A. L. Barbauld Legacy for Young Ladies (1826) 32 I spring up again, and again I pursue, The object still distant, the passion still new.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits ii. 36 The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
1920 A. R. Bellinger Spires & Poplars (1971) 39 Rich be your joys and ever new, Speedy your advent to our coast.
2000 M. Lewis New New Thing 39 Most other fifty-four-year-olds in Silicon Valley had long ago been torn down and replaced. Not Clark. Other people grew old, he stayed new.
B. n. Something or someone new.
1.
a. As a mass noun: that which is new; the new version, variety, etc., of something.In Old English and early Middle English in partitive genitive singular as postmodifier (cf. of new at Phrases 1).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > that which is new
neweOE
newness1690
N1732
spick and span1758
eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) vii. 15 Wenst þu þæt hit hwæt niwes sie?
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. Introd. 4 Gelamp þe aht niwes [Hatton ænig þing niwes]?
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 250 Ðis dai was forð in reste wrogt; Ilc kinde newes ear was brog[t].
a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 29 (MED) Þe alde is gan, ant þe newe is come.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1407 (MED) Þay bayþen in þe morn To fylle þe same forwardez..to chaunge What nwez so þay nome.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. A3v Man's memorie, with new, forgets the old; One tale is good, untill anothers told.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III v, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 242/1 All things he seemed to understand, Of old or new.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. 266 The actual creation of the new in speech is..very rare.
1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 45 As in the arts, so also in politics, the new must always prevail over the old.
1923 C. L. Morgan Emergent Evol. i. 1 Under what I here call emergent evolution stress is laid on this incoming of the new.
1966 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Apes vii. 217 There is a perpetual struggle going on inside the brain, between the fear of the new (neophobia) and the love of the new (neophilia).
1991 D. Richler Kicking Tomorrow i. 12 The Hell's Angels (the knights of new, slewing and smoting in search of their Grail—the bottomless amphetamine-still).
2000 Guardian 11 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 30/1 Tel Aviv was the shock of the new, of the present tense and the future merging, moment by moment.
†b. As a count noun: a new person or thing; esp. a new lover or friend. Chiefly in to change (a person) for no new and variants. Obsolete.In some examples this is arguably an elliptical use of the adjective, although the omitted noun is not always explicitly stated in the immediate context.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > a new thing or novelty
newOE
noveltyc1384
novelry1395
novela1450
novality?c1450
neweltyc1475
newel1484
newinga1500
newfangle?1510
novalty1563
newelry?1578
fangle1583
newie1924
OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. xiii. 52 Profert de thesauro suo noua et uetera : [he] forðbereð of goldhord his þa neowe & þa ealde.
c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 494 Ne schal me neure atwite me, Þat ihc beo of luue vntrewe, Ne chaunge luue for no newe, Ne lete þe olde for no newe be, So doþ Floriz on his contre.
c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) 384 (MED) Gete me frendes whare y may Y no schal neuer..Chaunge him for no newe.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xviii. 8 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 151 Witnes of lauerd es ai trewe, Wisedome lenand to littel newe [a1382 E.V. childer; L. parvulis].
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 722 Syþyn he hathe to þe be trewe, I rede þe forsakyn hym for no newe.
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 158 There shall no newe emong vs been abused.
1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis Fancy moues me, to change for no newe, But still for to loue thee.
a1861 E. B. Browning Queen Annelida & False Arcite in Poet. Wks. (1897) 148 She shall rue Obeying love, and cleaving faithfully Alway to one, and changing for no new [cf. Chaucer and chaungeth for no newe].
1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 147 An unborn New, To make the plagues afflicting us things past.
2. In full new of the moon. The time at which the moon is new (see new moon n.). Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month > periods within or phases of the moon
full moonOE
new moonOE
waningc1000
new of the moona1398
quarter?a1425
plenilune?a1475
neomeniaa1535
lunationc1549
interlune1561
wane1563
neomeny1569
dark of the moon1591
month of apparition1594
dark moon1615
plenilunium1615
moon1709
interlunation1813
quartering1880
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 298 Apes..ben mery and glad in þe newe of þe moone.
a1450 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) f. 63 Greete scarsete þerof in þe new of þe mone.
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxx Whether it were get in the new of the mone or in the old of the mone.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. civ. 388 Shooe him in the new of the moone.
1682 Riders Brit. Merlin Jan. Set all kind of..Fruit-trees in the New of the Moon.
1728 H. Pemberton View Sir I. Newton's Philos. 200 The moon would be nearer the earth at the new and full, than in the quarters.
1805 in G. L. Kittredge Old Farmer's Almanack (1904) 313 Apple trees..should be set out in the new of the moon.
a1923 H. Trench Poems (1924) II. 89 I..wished a deep wish at the new of the moon.
3. British Nautical slang. A naval cadet during his or her first term in a training ship.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [noun] > naval officer > naval cadet
new1909
niner1914
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 181/2 New (Britannia training ship), fresh arrival, last addition. Used in the plural.
1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions ix. 63 The path of the ‘New’ in those days was by no means strewn with roses.
1953 J. Masefield Conway (rev. ed.) iv. 224 The ‘News’ very rarely ventured into the upper room.
1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 81/1 New!, HMS Britannia's equivalent of the public school's ‘Fag!’

Phrases

†P1. of new. [Compare post-classical Latin de novo afresh, anew, recently (see de novo adv. at de prep. 6) and French de nouveau (12th cent. in Old French as de nuvel in senses ‘recently’ and ‘once more’). Compare also anew adv.]
a. Afresh, again, anew; once more. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > anew or again
moeOE
of newOE
yetOE
againOE
newlyOE
once morelOE
anewc1305
newa1325
i-gainc1325
againwardc1380
upon new1399
freshlya1413
newlings1440
of the newc1449
afreshc1450
of (also on) fresh1490
for the newc1535
backwardly1552
over againa1568
over1598
de novo1627
all over1811
OE (Northumbrian) Rushw. Gospels: John iii. 7 Non mineris [read mireris] quia dixi tibi oportet uos omnes nasci de nouo : ne wundra ðu forðon ic cweðo ðe giriseð uel bihofað iow alle [..] snude ofniowe.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 1371 (MED) Freschely þo, þe kyng Epistrophus, Menelay, and Thelamonyus, With alle her knyȝtes to-gidre hol & clos..Been of newe entrid in bataille.
c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 1381 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 40 We will ga now þe bishope till, & ask of new his benysone.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. viiiv It was expedient that of newe some lettered man..shulde awake and touche ye open vices of foles.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 67 By this meanes thei wer reconciled of newe.
1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 174 I find old sores bleeding of new.
1651 tr. F. de Quintana Hist. Don Fenise 270 He was much satisfied, and of new obliged to love me.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais Wks. (1859) I. 116 Should take good heart of new.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 6 Lasting feuds and animosities, which upon every turn are apt to ferment and to break out of new.
1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 79 A Warrant obtained for imprisoning him of new.
1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon VII. xx. 553 His attention was of new summoned.
1865 J. F. McLennan Primitive Marriage viii. 228 The threads of legal history..began to unwind themselves, of new, after..a social revolution.
1893 Edinb. Evening Disp. 29 Nov. 4/3 It would be incompetent for any clergyman of new to marry people already legally married.
b. Of late, recently; newly. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb]
neweneOE
newlyeOE
unyoreeOE
noweOE
newOE
lateOE
yesterdaya1300
freshlya1387
of newa1393
anewa1425
newlingsa1425
latewardc1434
the other dayc1450
lately?c1475
erst1480
latewards1484
sith late1484
alatea1500
recently1509
even now1511
late-whiles1561
late ygo1579
formerly1590
just now1591
lastly1592
just1605
low1610
this moment1696
latewardly1721
shortsyne1768
sometime1779
latterly1821
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 1003 (MED) Who so draweth into memoire What hath befalle of old and newe, He may that werre sore rewe.
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 4392 (MED) Ther to hym..By her lygeaunce of newe they wer bounde.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 92 The castell wele wes stuffit then Of-new with wittale and vith men.
a1550 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (Sloane 1873) (1975) 2843 (MED) Oon fornace bi me is fownde of newe Such as olde men nevir knewe.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xiii. 736 Regiments of Italians leauyed of newe.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem i. 118 b Qvha is made of new the Kings Burges..sall sweare to be..trew to the King.
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 444 The Suisses..are of new strictlier engaged, and more in the French interest than ever.
1728 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 294 They had of new visited the said ship.
c. By new arrangement, appointment, etc.; with some change or alteration. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > [adverb] > by some change
of newa1425
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [adverb]
againOE
of newa1425
againstc1460
backa1616
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 5169 Other must I love or hate. And if I hate men of-newe [etc.].
1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 304/1 Suche Assignements as oure said Soveraine Lord shall of newe make and appointe.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxi. 197 This ordynaunce they had made of newe, that the frenchmen knewe nat of.
a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 164 Then it was of new called Augusta.
d. Newly, as something new, in opposition to what has existed long and is now old. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
?1445 in J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1859) III. 78 Hath made..a new halle with a squillery, saucery and surveyng place, al of new.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 257/1 in Chron. I He restored the other two to their former beauties, and furthermore erected two other of new.
1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 88 One cundithe of leade, which was made of new.
e. Shortly, soon. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > imminently or in the near future
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
soonc900
shortlya1050
newenc1175
newlya1225
nunonc1225
newenlyc1275
fast byc1300
tomorrowa1382
brieflyc1460
anonc1475
soonlyc1475
of newa1500
suddenlya1500
by and by1526
soon1545
imminently1548
short1556
erelong1577
eminently1646
bimeby1722
directly1851
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 955 [G]if me leif to ga To the assemble, wich sal be of new.
P2. of the new.
†a. = sense A. 4a. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 339 (MED) Seintis in purgatorie..synnen not of þe newe, but purgen þer olde synnes.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 643 (MED) Then he remembrede of the newe How grettir fame shuld him pursewe If he myght make that brigge so bright That it myght shyne also bi nyght.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 609 Sic aventure wes hapnit of the new.
b. = sense A. 4b. Now chiefly Scottish and rare. Sc. National Dict. (1965) records the use in Scotland and Ulster in 1964.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > anew or again
moeOE
of newOE
yetOE
againOE
newlyOE
once morelOE
anewc1305
newa1325
i-gainc1325
againwardc1380
upon new1399
freshlya1413
newlings1440
of the newc1449
afreshc1450
of (also on) fresh1490
for the newc1535
backwardly1552
over againa1568
over1598
de novo1627
all over1811
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 386 (MED) The same good be ȝouun aȝen to hem of the newe.
1450 J. Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 111 I pray you that the said materes may be called vppon of the now.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 161 Yt was y-sent sone to shape of the newe.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xxiv. 1 The Lorde was wrothfully displeased of ye new agaynst Israel.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 624 He..occupyit all Ingland of the new.
P3.
†a. on the new: novel, unheard of. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > new [phrase] > something new
on the new?c1500
new one1887
?c1500 Killing of Children (Digby) 338 Thu make me a knyght, that were on the newe!
†b. for the new: = of new at Phrases 1. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > anew or again
moeOE
of newOE
yetOE
againOE
newlyOE
once morelOE
anewc1305
newa1325
i-gainc1325
againwardc1380
upon new1399
freshlya1413
newlings1440
of the newc1449
afreshc1450
of (also on) fresh1490
for the newc1535
backwardly1552
over againa1568
over1598
de novo1627
all over1811
c1535 Ploughman's Tale iii. sig. C.ivv Gay gownes That mote be shape for the newe.
c. Scottish. in the new: anew, afresh, again; recently. Now rare. Cf. of new at Phrases 1.
ΚΠ
1734 Ayr Presbytery Reg. MS 3 July 65 For taking down Eleven couples and binding them in the new.
1877 G. Fraser Sketches 274 Tae get this gentleman's coat-neck padded in the new, for..his present coat-neck is dune.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. (at cited word) It's duist i' the new that he's gotten mairriet.

Compounds

C1.
a. With nouns, forming compounds used attributively.
(a)
† new charter adj. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1684 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 307 A contest between the old charter men and the new charter men.
new-face adj.
ΚΠ
1900 H. Hart Cent. Typogr. 120 These are the first examples of what are called nowadays ‘new-face’ types.
† new fashion adj. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [adjective]
new fashion1745
neological1754
neologous1812
neologismal1836
neoteristic1873
neologistic1935
1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. D2 New fashion tearmes I like not for a man.
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 49 Learn all the new-fashion Words.
1780 J. O'Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town i. 13 'Squire Jonquil wou'd have took Monsieur Frippery, the new fashion French taylor.
† new-leaf adj. Obsolete rare
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [adjective] > reformed
newOE
corrected1557
reformed?1567
reclaimed1592
retrieved1638
reduced1697
new-leaf1899
1899 S. Butler Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered 97 A sub-didactic, new-leaf, good-resolution tone.
† new leather adj. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 756 Bouillaud classified pericardial friction sounds as grazing, new leather sound, and grating.
† new milk adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1685 J. Dryden tr. Theocritus Idyllium i, in Sylvæ 358 A dainty Kid, and a large New-milk Cheese.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 142 The best new milk cheeses 'ud have to go.
1873 E. Smith Foods 124 The proximate composition..is as follows... Very good new milk cheese..36 [parts water] [etc.].
new-pattern adj.
ΚΠ
1872–6 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) at Borer A new pattern hand gimlet borer has been introduced into the service..to be used instead of the hook borer.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 15 Aug. 15/1 The new-pattern 4.7 howitzer is said to have a range of nearly 9,000 yards.
new-system adj.
ΚΠ
1892 Science 28 Oct. 247/2 When the advocates of this system have succeeded in establishing a strong foot hold for their system..then we can almost picture our laboring scientists, with the new system (?) dictionary before them, ever fearful of [etc.].
1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 13/1 The results of the year..will be to some extent helped by the traffic from the new-system lines.
new-type adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > new, novel, or not previously known
newOE
fresha1382
unhearda1382
new-founda1425
raw1448
newfanglec1450
newfangled?1531
new-fashioned1574
novile1586
modern1590
newelty1590
unheard1592
novellous1601
new-discovered1609
novelizing1625
nouvelle1650
new-type1887
edgy1976
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Jan. 2/1 All naval Powers have provided their ships with..new-type guns.
1974 China Reconstructs July 41/2 These new-type medical workers are called ‘barefoot doctors’.
(b)
new collar adj. and n. [after blue-collar adj. 2] originally and chiefly U.S. (a) adj. designating or relating to a socio-economic group whose members hold low-wage service or office jobs rather than industrial or manual jobs; (b) n. a member of this socio-economic group.
ΚΠ
1984 Newsweek 31 Dec. 59 (title) The new-collar class.
1985 Boston Globe 14 Apr. (Mag.) 82/2 New collars tend to view major elections coolly and at a distance.
1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation iv. 152 The ‘new collar’ proletariat of secretaries, office workers, salesmen, and store managers who have partly replaced blue-collar assembly line workers.
new-time adj. (a) gen. of or relating to a new time (sometimes in contrast to old-time); (b) Stock Market relating to business to be conducted on the next settling-day.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective] > specific operations or arrangements
short1849
marginal1870
odd lot1870
share pushing1896
new-time1897
stop-loss1901
over the counter1921
physical1946
OTC1965
index-linked1970
bed and breakfast1974
mark-to-market1981
1897 Science 5 Feb. 227/2 A..scholar who loves nature and records her various phases after the manner of the old-time naturalist, though rectified by new-time science.
1922 Daily Mail 12 Dec. 3 It was Carry-over day in the Mining market, and ‘new-time’ dealing there was on a small scale.
1986 Times 13 June 23/8 Dealers hope that Dixons could now enjoy some ‘new time’ support.
b. In parasynthetic formations.
(a) With adjectives in -ed formed on nouns.
ΚΠ
1770 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) IV. 48 They [sc. Persian horses]..are fed with new-eared or green barley.
?1782 J. Trumbull MʽFingal iii, in Poet. Wks. (1820) 91 Your dirt-bred patriots..To wealth and power and honors rise, Like new-wing'd maggots changed to flies.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. i. 69 The white dew on the new bladed grass.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xviii. 272 He..began to pace up and down the sunny walk, under the new-leaved chestnuts.
1897 W. Watson in Westm. Gaz. 16 July 3/1 Behold him Rise, new-fanged.
1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men 164 A tinted photograph of an immaculate, new-overalled boy of twelve.
(b) Other (mainly ad hoc) formations.
† new-birthite n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > reform > one who > one who favours reform
reformado1787
reformationist1824
new-birthitea1834
new eraist1872
reformist1906
renewalist1966
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 342 The very term by which the German New-Birthites express it is enough to give one goose-flesh.
† new eraist n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > one who is modern in methods or opinions
modernist1864
new eraist1872
modern1888
presentist1923
modernus1953
the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > reform > one who > one who favours reform
reformado1787
reformationist1824
new-birthitea1834
new eraist1872
reformist1906
renewalist1966
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 193 New æraists, who want their new æra started forthwith.
new-schoolish adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern
modern1585
new-schoolish1844
New World1847
latter day1850
contemporary1859
unantiquated1859
todayish1864
contemporaneous1871
modernistic1878
presentist1878
up to date1888
down to date1893
up-with-the-times1893
de nos jours1909
up to the minute1909
chromium-plate1924
chromium-plated1924
contempo1944
now1955
New Wave1960
nouveau1974
1844 T. Parker in J. Weiss Life & Corr. T. Parker (1863) I. 244 Here they concoct one of the best journals in Germany. It is Hegelian and new-schoolish of course.
c. With present participles of verbs taking an adjective complement.
new-looking adj.
ΚΠ
1852 S. D. Greer Quakerism 200 He likes me to get his spoons done for him. He..likes to have them bright and new looking.
1905 J. Joyce Let. c12 Oct. (1966) II. 121 A good new-looking..suit.
1999 P. Mishra Romantics (2001) iii. i. 222 New-looking furniture had been ordered but still lay under plastic wraps.
new-seeming adj.
ΚΠ
1888 Cambrian 13 July 6/1 Could but a Druid, out of dateless eld, Descend into the light of our late days...Impelled By lofty passion, he might deign to preach New-seeming truths, that to himself were old.
1903 Tablet 14 Feb. 259/2 The strong personality of Bentley and the new-seeming forms of the style he half adopted and half moulded to his own purposes, will dominate the church building of a generation.
1987 N.Y. Times 17 May vii. 28/1 A word about Mr. Amis's style: it's rough, new-seeming, laconic, lower-class, insolent, careless.
new-sounding adj.
ΚΠ
1974 Philos. Q. 24 381 [The form of moral thinking] is identified in terms of prescriptivity, universalizability..and love, this last and perhaps new-sounding element being made more explicit in relation to [etc.].
1995 Denver Post 30 Apr. f1/1 It has always displayed an unwillingness to join the rat race of trend-setting, new-sounding fashion plates.
C2.
a.
new Adam n. [compare post-classical Latin novissimus Adam (Vulgate: 1 Corinthians 15:45), novus Adam (a1166 in a British source)] someone regarded as the moral or spiritual successor to Adam, spec. Christ (cf. second Adam n. at second adj. and n.2 Compounds 1).
ΚΠ
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11030 Þiss iss an oðerr neow adam & all wiþþ utenn sinne. Þatt leosenn shall þe forrme adam Vt off þe deofless walde.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Worcester) 15 (MED) Thentent is to conferme men that bien defouled with synne of old Adam to cristen mennes lif thurgh grace of newe Adam, that is, Ihesu Crist.
a1783 H. Brooke Poet. Wks. (1792) 397 Sons of my son, ordain'd to see my face;..But not mature to wing their native skies, Till their New Adam shall from death arise.
1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation (1852) x. 233 Joined by supernatural union to that Second Man, the new Adam, Who is God's son by nature.
1993 Isis 84 386/1 The emergence of a socioreligious narrative of man's regeneration as the new Adam through divine inspiration.
New Army n. now historical any of the British forces assembled from Kitchener's volunteer recruitment campaign of 1914 at the beginning of the First World War (1914–18).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > British army > in specific time or place
Thimble and Bodkin Army1647
New Model Army1845
New Army1914
B.A.O.R.1945
1914 Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 9/4 Mr Kipling has chosen as his subject the training of the New Army.
1957 H. Williamson Golden Virgin II. xvii. 259 [Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig] had wanted to make the attack..later in the year; for while the New Armies were in good heart, they lacked both experience and sufficient training.
1994 P. Simkins in D. Chandler Oxf. Illustr. Hist. Brit. Army xi. 243 [Kitchener] aimed to construct a series of New Armies, complete in all their branches, with each New Army duplicating the six infantry divisions of the BEF.
New Australian n. chiefly Australian an immigrant to Australia, esp. one from continental Europe whose first language is not English.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > types of
myall1818
whitefellow1834
Mongolian1859
New Australian1905
New Australian1926
munjon1945
Naussie1947
ocker1971
1905 Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Sept. 39/1 For what the new Australian knows as ‘shikkar’ is just another word for good old ‘fou’.
1952 A. G. Mitchell in Chambers's Shorter Eng. Dict. Suppl. New Australian, an immigrant, usually a European; first applied to displaced persons from the Baltic countries.
1959 N.Z. Listener 9 Jan. 3/2 The hero of the story, Nino Culotta, is a New Australian—or what is now known as a Naussie.
new bug n. British slang = new boy n. (cf. bug n.2 9).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > one who or that which is new to the scene
new mana1387
newcomerc1450
mushrooma1593
Johnny Newcome1800
new boy1847
new girl1853
Johnny-come-lately1855
newie1856
new bug1900
new-tick1934
Johnny-come-lately1946
1900 J. S. Farmer Public School Word-bk. 139 New-bug, a new boy.
1921 H. Williamson Beautiful Years 170 My aunt, what a riff-raff of new bugs, Spotty. We'll show 'em, eh?
1995 Independent on Sunday 24 Dec. 15/1 His mother..has just started writing letters to him again, as if he were still a homesick new bug at Cheam.
New Canadian n. Canadian a person who has recently immigrated to Canada.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > new
New Canadian1907
1907 H. A. Kennedy (title) New Canada and the New Canadians.
1939 J. M. Gibbon Canad. Mosaic ix. 231 Anthology of verse written by New Canadians.
1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 7/6 If New Canadians prefer to learn English from Eaton's or Simpson's catalogue, there must be something wrong?
New Christian Right n. U.S. a political movement of right-wing Christian fundamentalist groups advocating an ultra-conservative political and social agenda.
ΚΠ
1980 Newsweek 15 Sept. 28/2 Over the last eighteen months a new and potent political force has been taking shape—a ‘New Christian Right’ in the words of theologian Martin E. Marty.
2000 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 23 Sept. 13 In the run-up to the 1988 election, Pat Robertson, the then potential Republican Party presidential nominee and leader of the New Christian Right movement wrote [etc.].
New Comedy n. [compare ancient Greek κωμῳδίαι καιναί (plural), Hellenistic Greek κωμῳδία νέα] the last of the three phases into which ancient Greek comedy is customarily divided, typically depicting fictional characters and situations derived from contemporary domestic life, esp. the tribulations of young lovers; (also) comedies belonging to this phase. Cf. Middle Comedy n. at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a, Old Comedy n. at old adj. Compounds 4.Menander is the principal author of New Comedy. The form was later adapted and developed by the Roman writers Plautus and Terence.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy
Old Comedy1529
New Comedy1542
comedy of errors?1595
romantic comedy1748
musical comedy1765
comédie larmoyante1773
sketch1789
serio-comedy1808
vaudeville1827
teacup-and-saucer comedy1842
satyr play1845
Restoration comedy1866
zarzuela1888
situation comedy1893
sex comedy1915
sitcom1956
1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 23v A decree was made that no manne should bee named to hys reproche and that was called ye newe comedie.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 52 In their new Comedy which succeeded, the Poets sought indeed to express the ἦθος, as in their Tragedies the πάθος of Mankind.
1760 Monthly Rev. Oct. 298 The Romans applied themselves only to the new comedy.
1865 T. Wright Hist. Caricature & Grotesque i.15 In the New Comedy all caricature and parody, and all personal allusions, were entirely proscribed; it was changed entirely into a comedy of manners and domestic life.
1938 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 49 206 New Comedy is hardly comedy at all, but rather the bourgeois rehabilitation of tragedy.
1995 M. Banham Cambr. Guide Theatre (2000) 234/1 The plot of New Comedy was often structured on the most durable formula of all: young lovers separated by an obstacle are united at the grand finale.
2006 Greece & Rome 53 70 From Greek New Comedy descends a long and rich tradition in western comedy.
New Democratic Party n. Canadian a left-of-centre political party formed from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1961 and deriving substantial support from organized labour; abbreviated NDP.
ΚΠ
1961 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. 4 Aug. 29/7 All that is changed are the initials, was the remark made by Senator David A. Croll..when asked to comment on the New Democratic Party in an interview Friday.
1995 Vancouver Sun 2 Nov. a3/1 The new leader of the federal New Democratic Party says Quebec should be..given autonomy in some areas.
New Divinity n. now historical the name given to a version of Christian doctrine originally developed by some members of the Congregational church in Connecticut, specifically associated with Jonathan Edwards and his followers, and later identified with New England theology (New England theology n. at New England n. 2b).
ΚΠ
1767 J. Mills Inquiry concerning State of Unregenerate 55 I wou'd be far from insinvating, that the author has any inclination to favour the new divinity... [Note] By the new divinity here, I mean the divinity lately brought into the country..that intirely denies any preparatory work, in order to saving faith, by the common influence of the Spirit.
1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1634/2 [New England divines] announced a few principles, which were called ‘New-Light Divinity’, or ‘New Divinity’.
1995 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 82 966 The core doctrine of the New Divinity..distinguished between the ‘true virtue’ of regenerated saints..and the counterfeit ‘virtue’ of sinners.
new entry n. (a) something appearing for the first time in a list, catalogue, dictionary, etc.; (b) Nautical slang, a recruit.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > recruit
new entry1896
nozzer1912
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > one or those who are new to something
first timer1881
new entry1896
Johnny-come-lately1943
1896 Mod. Lang. Notes 11 207/2 If Hall had not been so eager to avail himself of a new entry, he would have noticed that Wülker in his note wished to say that [etc.].
1919 W. Lang Sea-lawyer's Log 5 Approaching him with diffidence our spokesman modestly announced us as ‘new entries’—the Navy does not deal in ‘recruits’.
1956 Blakiston's New Gould Med. Dict. (ed. 2) p. xiii New entries in infectious diseases, hematology, and cardiology can be mentioned as examples of the completeness of revision.
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 185/1 Morale was lower, there was apathy and this was rubbing off on new entries.
1994 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 5 Nov. Their latest single..was the highest new entry in the national chart at number 7 this week.
new Eve n. a woman seen as a successor to Eve, esp. in being fallible or easily tempted, or (occasionally) in redeeming the transgressions of the first Eve.
ΚΠ
a1824 Ld. Byron Wks. (1993) VII. 77 If the new Eve For an Apple should grieve, What mortal would not play the Devil?
1954 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 13 228 The first-born son of the mystical union between the New Adam and the New Eve was none other than Postel himself, whose duty in the world was thus to spread abroad the New Gospel.
1993 Esquire Oct. 71/1 And if Arnold is new Adam, the new Eve is the RoboSlut.
New High German n. [after German Neuhochdeutsch (earliest as adjective in J. Grimm Deutsche Grammatik (1819) I. p. xxvi)] High German in the period following either 1350 or (now less frequently) 1500; also attributive or as adj.; cf. Middle High German n. at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a.
ΚΠ
1869 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 607 The three subordinate periods of the second division are, first, the thirteenth century..second, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; and third, the time of the New High-German in the sixteenth and far into the seventeenth century.
1890 Mod. Lang. Notes 5 106/2 One attempt..has been made here to present a historical treatise of New High German grammar.
1979 Dictionaries 1 78 Other phrase words were very late innovations, stemming mostly from New High German times.
new iniquity n. New Zealand colloquial (derogatory; now historical) an unwanted influx of immigrants (originally used spec. of the immigrants who arrived in Dunedin in the 1860s); (as a count noun) a member of such an influx; cf. old identity at identity n. 5.
ΚΠ
1871 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 3 July 2 We got new doctors..lawyers..Jew pedlars..et hoc genus omne [in Wanganui], and this infusion of ‘new iniquities’ [to Wanganui] has fairly bedeviled the place.
1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences 25 It is alleged that one minister actually prayed that the stream of rogues and vagabonds which was flowing into the country might be stayed, but this I believe to have been a base invention of the ‘new iniquity’, as the new-comers were nick-named.
1959 K. Sinclair Hist. N.Z. 104 Dunedin became the largest town in the country, while, to the horror of ‘Old Identity’, saloons, billiard rooms, gambling dens and dance halls sprang up to attract the gold of the ‘New Iniquity’.
new jazz n. any of various types of modern jazz; esp. = bebop n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > types of
rooty-toot1852
soul music1920
Chicago1923
gutbucket1925
symphonic jazz1926
Dixieland1927
jive1928
white jazz1931
Harlem1934
jump1937
New Orleans1938
free jazz1941
progressive jazz1944
bebop1945
gypsy swing1945
modern jazz1946
bop1948
new jazz1949
cool1952
Afro-jazz1954
funk1954
gypsy jazz1955
trad jazz1955
trad1956
whorehouse music1956
new thing1962
fusion1965
1948 Life 11 Oct. 138 (heading) Bebop: new jazz school is led by trumpeter who is hot, cool and gone.]
1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop vi. 43 He [sc. Louis Armstrong] was given extensive police protection, as a result of a rumor that the new-jazz crowd were out to maim him and prevent him from playing.
1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xiii. 141 The movement that is variously labeled ‘progressive’ or ‘modern’ or ‘new’ jazz is a New York movement.
1977 V. Wilmer (title) As serious as your life: the story of the new jazz.
New Journalism n. (frequently with the) a style of journalism that developed in the U.S. during the 1960s, characterized by the use of subjective and fictional elements; also used earlier in a more general sense.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > journalism > [noun] > other specific types or styles of journalism
penny-a-lining1842
publicism1846
New Journalism1872
investigative reporting1890
ink-slinging1894
yellowism1897
chip paper1935
Afghanistanism1948
telejournalism1959
parajournalism1965
smear journalism1967
gonzo1972
plutography1985
1872 Scribner's Monthly 203/2 Whether the new Journalism will follow Public Opinion or make it.
1901 Amer. Hist. Rev. 6 452 New York City had become the metropolis of the country, wherein the new journalism could find its best and largest audience.
1960 J. Hohenberg Professional Journalist xxiii. 322 The new journalism not only seeks to explain as well as to inform; it even dares to teach, to measure, to evaluate.
1977 Rolling Stone 7 Apr. 87/2 Thomas' new-journalism prose is often so slick as to give the impression he's told you all you need to know.
1994 N.Y. Times 24 July iv. 5/1 In the 1960s, the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese and Truman Capote employed the techniques of the novel to great literary effect.
New Journalist n. a practitioner of New Journalism.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > other types of journalist
editorial writer1819
court-newsman1837
feuilletonist1840
editorialist1841
market reporter1854
headliner1875
leader-writer1882
investigative journalist1890
feature writer1912
roundsman1912
by-liner1944
telejournalist1964
New Journalist1970
gonzo1972
1970 Writer's Digest Jan. 33/2 I don't think Tom Wolfe started as a New Journalist; I don't think Gay Talese started as a New Journalist. I think they started as marvelously original writers.
1986 Christian Sci. Monitor 9 May 23/3 Write your novel and call it a memoir. What with historians writing like novelists and novelists writing like historians—and New Journalists writing like both—who can tell the difference?
New Kingdom n. the period of ancient Egyptian history which includes the reigns of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties (c1550–1070 b.c.).
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > specific Egyptian
shepherd kings1587
the Shepherds1759
shepherd1813
Old Kingdom1889
New Kingdom1902
1902 Man 2 12 In some cases the royal names found in these tombs are recognizable in the New Kingdom lists.
1907 Man 7 114 The graves have yielded a pottery figure of a camel of the Ramesside time, showing that the animal was used for burden in Upper Egypt in the New Kingdom.
1971 R. A. Parker in J. R. Harris Legacy of Egypt (ed. 2) i. 22 A papyrus known as the Turin Canon..listed the kings of Egypt from the earliest dynasties down to the end of the Hyksos period, that is just prior to the New Kingdom.
1994 Metropolitan Mus. of Art Holiday Gifts 39/3 (caption) The design derives from a cylinder ring dating from the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18.
new math n. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) = new mathematics n.
ΚΠ
1958 Life 14 Apr. 124/1 Basically the new math teaching does away with old-fashioned rote learning and aims at getting students to think mathematically.]
1965 N.Y. Times Mag. Apr. 93/1 The ‘new math’ may be baffling to adults, but the question of when and how children should learn to read is at least as confusing.
1998 N.Y. Times 20 Sept. i. 24/2 The traditionalists have won... New math and whole-language reading are in retreat.
new maths n. colloquial = new mathematics n.
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1967 Punch 8 Mar. 332/1 If we realised..how much the New Maths derived from a foreign professor attending to the babbling of infants..our suspicions would be even deeper and darker.
1998 C. Chidgey In Fishbone Church (2000) 105 Etta finds the New Maths quite different from what she learnt at school.
new meat n. U.S. slang (a) newly arrived inmates, students, etc.; (b) Military replacement troops; (also as a count noun) a new replacement.
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1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 109 When the inmates on the gang saw us, they hollered ‘New meat in the market!’ Then they jumped on us and took our money and cigarettes.
1963 Amer. Speech 38 272 During a student's first year, he will be referred to as new meat.
1971 Newsweek 13 Sept. 40 A batch of twelve new replacements, ‘newmeats’ in GI argot, for Bravo Company.
1989 F. A. Leib Fire Dream 82 They sang a cadence to welcome ‘new meat’.
1992 Men's Health Mar. 76/2 The kind [of boxing gym] where 15 sweaty fighters would stop..only long enough to check out any ‘new meat’ that happened to walk in the door.
new-new adj. doubly new; new even compared to other things which are considered new; (also simply) very new.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > brand new
span-newc1300
spon-new13..
brand-newc1570
spick and span new1579
new-new1592
fire-new1597
fiery-new1644
spick and span1665
split-new1695
spander-new1707
spank span-new1775
spick-span1815
spleet-new1818
brand-span-new1828
spick-span new1880
firebrand new1882
spanking new1886
spandy new1903
pin-new1967
box-fresh1990
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iv. 59 Our new-new writers, the Loadstones of the Presse.
1985 19th-cent. Fiction 39 462 The reverse of the book's great strength in its careful reading of images is the new-new critical implosion of the text..into the problem of textuality.
1993 Amer. Hist. Rev. 98 1206/1 Today history is so often written under the sign of the ‘new’ that it has become increasingly difficult to tell the new from the old or the new-old from the new-new history.
new normal n. chiefly North American (usually with the) a previously atypical or unfamiliar situation, behaviour, etc., which has become standard, usual, or expected.
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1922 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 36 659 The abnormal situation may persist until it becomes a new normal.
1954 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 18 Mar. 23/4 Pessimism has become the new normal in some quarters.
1992 Toronto Star (Nexis) 20 Nov. c8 This is where the new normal starts, however bizarro it may have seemed in the past.
2007 M. Keane & D. Chace What to eat if you have Diabetes xiii. 272 Giant cookies, muffins, bagels, and brownies were once considered an outrageous indulgence, but today the supersize is the new normal.
† new nothing n. Obsolete a worthless novelty; (British regional) nothing at all; cf. nothing pron. and n. 6a.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > a new thing or novelty > worthless
new nothing1577
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless > types of
eggshell1550
new nothing1577
earth?1592
shuck1851
putty medal1893
garbage can1922
1577 N. Breton Wks. Young Wyt 17 A new nothing, which many a day agen, Children were woont to hang vpon their sleeues..To still them strayght, and make them be at rest.
?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 222 And thou will william thoust be a good boy & ile ge the a new nothi [ng] .
1641 R. West in J. Wilkins Mercury sig. A7v Fresh Heresies (New-nothings) still appear.
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra ii. iii. 212 The Allegorizers and Inventers of Mysteries..are ravished..with the discovery of a New-nothing.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 52 If you'll be good children, I'll bring you all a new-nothing to hang on your sleeves, i.e. nothing at all.
new-old adj. old and yet also (through revival, repair, etc.) new.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > new-old or both new and old
new-old1597
novantiquea1688
1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. x. Reciting ancient worth to make new fame, Or new-old hierarchie from honours file.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. vi. §5 Thus Annius puts a good face on his new-old Authors.
1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher II. 34 Hopes were given my father that Lord and Lady Daventry would..stay a fortnight with him at his new-old castle.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxv. 30 As for most of your new-old building [etc.].
2001 Vogue (U.S. ed.) Apr. 218/1 When the first skirt suits appear, they herald a new-old mood at the house; the collection is peppered with late fifties Dior-isms.
† new planet n. Astronomy Obsolete (spec.) each of the four largest and earliest known asteroids or minor planets (Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta).
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1807 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 245 This new planet may with the greatest propriety be called an asteroid.]
1811 D. Brewster Ferguson's Astron. (new ed.) II. Suppl. ix. 357 The four new planets are the fragments of a large celestial body which once existed between Mars and Jupiter.
1827 J. Ryan Amer. Gram. Elements Astron. ix. 308 It appears rather extraordinary that the orbits of the four new planets..should all be nearly at the same distance from the sun.
1846 D. Lardner Pop. Lect. Sci. & Art I. 143 The planets..will naturally be classed in three distinct groups, the first of which we shall call the minor planets, the second the new planets, and the third the major planets.
New Police n. now historical the police force established for London by the Metropolitan Police Act 1829.
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1830 J. Jekyll Let. 13 Nov. (1894) viii. 254 It is incredible with what spirit and firmness the new police has defeated the canaille.
1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. 45 In those days [1836–47] the ‘new Police’, as they were still called..were very different in appearance from our present guardians.
1923 N.E.D. at Watch sb. One who watches..for purposes of guarding and protecting life and property, and the like; esp. before the introduction of the new Police, a watchman..who patrolled and guarded [etc.].
† New Policeman n. Obsolete a constable of the New Police of 1829.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > other types of policeman
star1714
Special Constable1733
police runner1782
snoozy1823
New Policeman1830
redbreast1862
roundsman1868
state trooper1883
harness cop1891
black and tans1920
B Special1922
tans1932
1830 Morning Chron. 18 Aug. (heading) Murder of a New Policeman by a gang of burglars.
1871 Notes & Queries 17 June 525/1 Prior to the epoch of the ‘new policeman’, many were the strange pranks, rude practical jokes, and mortifying degradations committed.
new poor n. (usually with the) recently impoverished people, regarded as a class (cf. new rich n. 1).
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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > recently poor person > collectively
nouveau poor1916
new poor1920
1920 Amer. Econ. Rev. 10 155 These [price] fluctuations have..caused wasteful struggles, encouraged extravagance among some, and created the class of ‘new poor’.
1969 Triumph (U.S.) Mar. 25/1 The new poor, the misplaced workers, who are a by-product of our technology.
1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 July 31/6 He has been robbing the new-poor blind and passing much of the loot to the new-rich.
new potato n. (usually in plural) one of the earliest potatoes of a new crop.
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1792 J. Woodforde Diary 26 June (1927) III. 359 Dinner..rosted Duck with New Potatoes &c.
1884 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Aug. 452/2 New potatoes, dug for the first time that day.
1998 New Yorker 30 Nov. 32/2 Each plate generously crowded with a blini, a piece of toast, and a roasted new potato.
† New Schellingism n. Obsolete the philosophy of certain disciples of Schelling, particularly of F. J. Stahl.
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1843 Dial Jan. 391 I am told that old Schellingism and new-Schellingism are quite different things.
1874 G. S. Morris tr. F. Ueberweg Hist. Philos. II. 226 Friedrich Julius Stahl..protesting against the designation of his philosophy..as ‘New Schellingism’.
New Stone Age n. (also with lower-case initials) Archaeology the Neolithic period.
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1869 Duke of Argyll Primeval Man iv. 59 They [sc. archaeologists] talk of an Old Stone Age (Palæolithic), and of a Newer Stone Age (Neolithic).]
1870 Harper's Mag. May 931/1 Three epochs are traced by M. Reboux; that of the cave bear, or early stone age; the middle stone age, or the reindeer period; and the new stone age, or the period of the dolmens.
1949 A. E. Trueman Geol. & Scenery Eng. & Wales viii. 113 In the case of the Hampshire basin the whole river system has been drowned under the sea, as a result of the lowering of the level of the land or rise of sea-level in relatively recent times (continuing to the New Stone Age).
2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 June 4 The discovery of the Orkney structures could greatly contribute to knowledge of the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, period.
new tables n. [after classical Latin novae tabulae (plural) cancellation of debt] Roman History (now rare) the cancellation of debt by edict; cf. table n. 2b.
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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > legal or administrative
Ragmanc1400
Statute of Sewers1571
Poynings' Act1613
Poynings' Law1622
Statute of Limitations1641
Act (or Bill) of Indemnity1647
new tables1664
Habeas Corpus Act1705
Judicature Act1782
continuance act1863
stay-law1880
ripper1885
reception statute1931
thirty-year rule1966
sunshine law1968
1655 Observ. Comm. Civile Warres 75/2 in C. Edmondes Observ. Caesar's Comm. (rev. ed.) This generall acquittance for debts, the Romans called Novae Tabulae;..in regard that when the debt was remitted to the debtour, new Tables were made, wherein new names were put.]
1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. Gen. Coll. Disc. Virtuosi France xliii. 261 That was introduc'd which they call'd the new Tables, being a general discharge of all debts without payment.
1687 tr. Sallust Wks. 30 Then Cataline promis'd 'em New Tables, or the Cancelling of their Debts.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. iii. 566 The poorer citizens were continually calling out..for what they called New Tables; that is, for a law which should entitle them to a complete acquittance, upon paying only a certain proportion of their accumulated debts. View more context for this quotation
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xi. 153 There occurred at Rome several political changes which brought about new tables or at least a partial depreciation of contracts.
2007 C. Francese Anc. Rome in so Many Words 209 To seek ‘new tables’ (novae tabulae) was to advocate a total abolition of debts.
new technology n. technology that radically alters the way something is produced or performed, esp. by labour-saving automation or computerization; an instance of such technology.
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society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > technology > branches or types of
manufacturing technology1890
geotechnics1902
geotechnology1908
neotechnics1927
high technology1936
appropriate technology1950
new technology1953
space technology1957
technoscience1960
microtechnology1963
telechirics1963
reproductive technology1965
high-tech1967
megatechnics1967
terotechnology1970
ecotechnology1973
new-tech1980
analogue1986
sci-tech1990
haptics1992
1953 O. E. Anderson (title) Refrigeration in America; a history of a new technology and its impact.
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media i. vii. 65 The ability of the artist to sidestep the bully blow of new technology..is age-old.
1997 Chicago Tribune 14 Dec. v. 5/5 (advt.) A leading software technology and systems integration firm, specializing in transitioning companies from old technologies to new technologies.
new-tick n. British slang (rare) = new bug n.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > one who or that which is new to the scene
new mana1387
newcomerc1450
mushrooma1593
Johnny Newcome1800
new boy1847
new girl1853
Johnny-come-lately1855
newie1856
new bug1900
new-tick1934
Johnny-come-lately1946
1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days v. 79 New-tick Flory does look rum.
new variant CJD n. Medicine (in full new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) = variant CJD n. at variant adj. and n. Additions.
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1996 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Mar. 795 (title) BSE linked to a new variant of CJD in humans.]
1996 Lancet 5 Oct. 955 (title) Cerebrospinal-fluid test for new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
1997 Guardian 1 May i. 3/6 Mice in London have been dosed with brains from BSE cattle to see if they develop the human version known as new variant CJD.
1999 Express 10 June 23/2 Already 40 people have died from new-variant CJD.
new wheat disease n. Veterinary Medicine a form of pyelonephritis affecting young poultry, possibly caused by a virus; also called blue comb (disease), pullet disease.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of poultry
roup1551
squeck1577
gargil1614
roup1614
the gapes1799
garget1817
snifters1844
white comb1853
bumble foot1854
wry-tail1880
blackhead1894
bacillary white diarrhoea1909
limber-neck1910
(avian or fowl) leucosis complex1922
pullorum1929
perosis1931
fowl paralysis1932
scissor beak1934
blue comb1939
hexamitiasis1941
pullet disease1941
Marek's disease1947
new wheat disease1950
X disease1950
sour crop1951
fowl cholera-
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 442/1 The condition of poultry known as pullet disease, blue-comb disease, new wheat disease, or X disease has been known in Great Britain and America for several years.
1957 L. Robinson Mod. Poultry Husb. (ed. 4) xx. 677 Since outbreaks usually occur in late summer and autumn, the disease has been called ‘New Wheat disease’. There is no evidence, however, that new wheat is responsible.
b. Used (usually preceded by the) with the name of a discipline to designate a new school of thought or movement in that field (see sense A. 5a), as new philosophy, new theology, etc.; later also with derivatives to designate an advocate or adherent of such a movement, as new theologian, etc.New Divinity, New Journalism, New Journalist, new math, new maths, new physics: see Compounds 2a. See also new mathematics n., new politics n.
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1611 J. Donne Anat. World sig. B Now the Springs and Sommers which we see, Like sonnes of women after fifty bee. And new Philosophy cals all in doubt.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Preface p. iv Those that are well versed in the New Philosophy..may skip what was design'd.
1731 J. Tull New Horse-houghing Husbandry 133 Of Differences Between the Old and the New Husbandry.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Seed Such wheat is not difficult to be had from land cultivated according to the principles of the new husbandry.
1841 Biblical Repertory July 466 This volume is well fitted to be an antidote to the new theology and new measures.
1880 Science 4 Dec. 281 This is the error committed by those who think they can found a new Psychology on the knife.
1887 Catholic World June 295 The New Theologians hold to the distinct individuality of each soul in its ethical state and relations.
1898 Sir E. Monson in Times 7 Dec. 5/1 We had not [then] heard so much of what is called the ‘new diplomacy’.
c1929 G. C. LaMaster (title) The new genetics.
1930 K. Burke in C. H. Grattan Crit. Humanism 169 The men whom the New Humanists in America recognize as their colleagues in France are advocates of Catholicism.
1951 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 138 62 Genetics, the new genetics..in which the biochemist and geneticist must work hand in hand,..may find opportunities here at the microscopic level.
1967 K. C. Chang Rethinking Archaeol. i. 3 I am not impressed by the phrase ‘new archaeology’ that one sometimes finds in current literature.
1982 D. J. Weatherall (title) The new genetics and clinical practice.
1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Dec. 24/4 A lack of concern for history does not characterize the New Medievalism in Chaucer studies.
C3. Used to form the names of colours obtained by new techniques, esp. new blue n. and adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > bright blue
sapphire huec1430
sapphire colour1477
sapphire1686
sapphire-blue1782
halcyon blue1787
kingfisher blue1878
new blue1897
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 360/3 Colors for Artists... Neutral Tint, New Blue, Olive Lake.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 361/1 Water Colors... Dark Green, New Rose, Flesh, New Violet.
1927 Daily Express 21 Mar. 2 Colours include cedar, green, silver, new blue, dawn or bois de rose.
1948 F. A. Staples Watercolour Painting iv. 49 New Blue, bright blue transparent.
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newv.

Brit. /njuː/, U.S. /n(j)u/
Forms: Old English neowian (Anglian), Old English niuiga (Northumbrian), Old English niwian, early Middle English niwie, Middle English neewe, Middle English neu, Middle English neue, Middle English niwe, Middle English noewe, Middle English nw, Middle English nywe, Middle English–1500s newe, Middle English–1600s 1800s– new, 1900s– 'new (poetic); also Scottish pre-1700 nev.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch nuwen (Dutch †nieuwen ; compare vernieuwen ), Old Saxon niwian , niuwian , nīgean , Old High German niuwōn (Middle High German niuwen , niwen ; compare German erneuen , erneuern ), Old Icelandic -nýja (in endrnýja ) < the same Germanic base as new adj.; compare also Gothic -niujan (in ananiujan).In Old English (and early Middle English) the prefixed form genīwian (early Middle English (rare) ȝenywie ; compare y- prefix) is also attested; it is unclear whether the following early Middle English prefixed past participle form represents the prefixed or the unprefixed verb, as formally it may belong to either:1340 Ayenbite (1866) 107 Be huam we ssolle by..ynewed and eft ycristned ine þe blode of Iesu crist.Compare also Old English ednīwian to renew, to restore (early Middle English (rare) ednīwie ; compare ed- prefix). In form 'new apparently by association with renew v.1
1.
†a. transitive. To renew, make new; to regenerate, revive, restore. Also reflexive. Obsolete.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > make new or novel [verb (transitive)]
newOE
innew?a1475
newfangle1530
novelize1631
to freshen up1746
to fresh up1831
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > renovate or renew
newOE
freshc1300
renovela1325
renewa1382
renulec1384
refreshc1425
repairc1425
anewc1440
ennew1523
renovatea1555
renove1588
regenerate1607
righta1656
reficiate1657
freshen1710
refreshen1780
to fresh up1831
recondition1857
renovize1932
OE Cynewulf Elene 940 Ne þearft ðu swa swiðe, synna gemyndig, sar niwigan ond sæce ræran.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lxxxix 128 Swa þæt ðu þeah æghwylce dæg þone drenc niwie.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1064 He niwade þær Cnutes lage.
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 28 Kiðen I wille ðe ernes kinde..Wu he neweð his ȝuðhede.
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 95 Neddre is te name; ðus he him neweð.
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) l. 11 (MED) God, make in me clene hert, and newe [L. innova] þou a ryȝt gost in myn hert.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 23399 (MED) Vr lauerd..sal neu vr bodis slike.
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 49 (MED) Al þe chirche of men and aungels is newid bi þe Incarnacioun.
a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) 642 Thow moste chawnge þyn oyle also, Þat þey mowe be newed bo.
1503 Star Chamber Proc. in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (1902) 16 153 The seyd Walter newed a pond of his.
a1555 R. Hutchinson Three Serm. ii, in Wks. (1842) 251 The sacraments also be newed and changed.
1569 in Court Minutes Surrey & Kent Sewer Comm. (London County Council) (1909) 8 The Lorde of Canterburie his grace to newe the sluce at the walle agaynste his graces grownde.
b. intransitive. To become new again; to be renewed, to revive. Also: to become new, change. Now archaic and rare.In some early quots. with indirect object denoting the person affected.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > be or become restored [verb (intransitive)] > be or become renewed
newc1330
renovelc1405
renewc1425
renove?c1425
refreshen1661
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 466 (MED) His care him neweþ eueriliche.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 6500 (MED) Þan newed alle hir wo.
c1390 (c1350) Proprium Sanctorum in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1888) 81 83 (MED) Whon grein of whete is cast to grounde, But ȝif hit die, hit schal not newe.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 59 (MED) I thenke forto touche also The world which neweth every dai.
a1450 Castle of Love (Bodl. Add.) (1967) 1794 (MED) All my blisse neweþ me.
c1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess 906 Every day hir beaute newed.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 73 (MED) Veyr ys hoot and moyst..And þerynne newys [L. excitatur] þe blood.
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 621 Quhen in ald men sic wourship neuis.
1882 W. Carleton Farm Ballads (rev. ed.) 108 The world keeps newing so!—they fashion it So old men find no place wherein to fit.
1904 J. Payne Songs of Consolation 8 Spring cometh, hope 'neweth, life springeth in woodland and wold.
1974 P. Gzowski Bk. about this Country 180/1 Wide awake, you are excited. The world is newing again.
†2.
a. intransitive. To recur. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
a1333 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 24 (MED) Þys day berth wytnesse, þat noeweth uche ȝer, þat-ou alyhtest vrom þe uader.
b. transitive. To recommence, resume, begin afresh; to repeat, reiterate. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xxxviii. 3 (MED) Ich..helde me stylle fram godes; and my sorowe is newed [L. renovatus].
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 161 (MED) Þe þrid day of þe fest, Sir Bernard of Bayoun Newed eft þer geste; þe quene he gaf þe coroun.
a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) 1463 (MED) Euer so ofter newed hyt ys, þe gratter þe synne waxeth I-wys.
a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 18 (MED) She sobbid..Newyng þe wordis..‘Who cannot wepe com lerne at me.’
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 12973 Hit was the moneth of May..Nightgalis with notes newit þere songe.
†3. intransitive. Of stock, a crop, etc.: to accrue (to a person); to be yielded or produced. Of a sum of money: to fall or come (to a person) by way of income. Frequently with indirect object denoting the person affected. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (intransitive)] > be made or produced
acomeOE
breedc1200
newc1390
gendera1398
foddenc1440
surmount1522
rise1549
naturate1576
superfete1642
kittle1823
c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 342 (MED) Of al þat neweþ him be ȝere, Do his tiþinge.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 9317 (MED) Of alle þyng þat þe neweþ, Tyþe ryȝtly.
c1400 ( Canticum Creatione 333 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 128 (MED) God bit þe..Taken þe tende part of þe guod Þat þe nyweþ by ȝere.
c1440 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 319 (MED) This mane..payed wele his tendis of all þat hym newede.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iv. 6 Ne þe nownagis þat newed him euere.
1493 Festivall (1515) (de Worde) Sentence General Tythes..of al maner bestis that are newyng.
1493 Festivall (1515) (de Worde) Sentence General Of hay also often as it newes.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 53 (MED) Of all that newes me, rightwys tend shall I gif the.

Derivatives

† newed adj. Obsolete rare renewed, made new.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > renovating or renewing > renovated or renewed
newedc1425
renovate?1440
renewed1483
newborn1594
born-again1913
rehabbed1967
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 31 Of them that ranne to religioun with an ynwarde newydde deuocyoun.
a1603 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Seneca in Poems (1964) 18 The horned newed moon them blessed calls Whose wane them misers judges when day doth fall.
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newadv.

Brit. /njuː/, U.S. /n(j)u/
Forms: see new adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: new adj.
Etymology: < new adj. Compare newen adv.
I. General uses.
1. Newly, recently, lately; a short time previously, just before. Chiefly Scottish in later use. Now rare.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb]
neweneOE
newlyeOE
unyoreeOE
noweOE
newOE
lateOE
yesterdaya1300
freshlya1387
of newa1393
anewa1425
newlingsa1425
latewardc1434
the other dayc1450
lately?c1475
erst1480
latewards1484
sith late1484
alatea1500
recently1509
even now1511
late-whiles1561
late ygo1579
formerly1590
just now1591
lastly1592
just1605
low1610
this moment1696
latewardly1721
shortsyne1768
sometime1779
latterly1821
OE Blickling Homilies 247 Forþon þe we niwe syndon to þissum geleafan gedon.
a1350 (c1307) in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 21 Herkneþ to my song, Of duel þat deþ haþ diht vs newe.
c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 176 (MED) Þei dede hire in a dungon..Marred in Manicles þat made wer newe.
c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1826 He was shaue al newe in his manere.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 202 (MED) He saw a pope at hight Benett, att wold new be dede.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 134 ‘Quhy, schir’, he said, ‘come ȝhe nocht new our se?’
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 379 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 70 Here ys þe Host, sacred newe.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 64/2 The recorder..a sadde man and an honest, whiche was so new come into that office yt he neuer had spoken to the peple before.
1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1874) 92 A man from a fever recovered new His greedy appetite could not eschew.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 159 Euen before this truce, but new before. View more context for this quotation
1651 Tragedy Mr. Christopher Love (broadside) in J. W. Draper Cent. Broadside Elegies (1928) 65 New from a slaughter'd Monarchs Herse I come.
1667 Earl of Argyll Let. in G. Sinclair & C. K. Sharpe Lett. Argyll to Lauderdale (1829) I. 44 It was at diner and I had new put his majesties health round.
1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. 55 If she hedn't new laaid on a lock a mul.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 401 They went in and looked at the restored lodge, where the family arms were just new scraped in stone.
1880 Bon-accord 9 Oct. 10 I've jist new haed ma denner.
1954 Fife Herald 27 Oct. 2 I juist seem tae hae new got wan wee bit haver sent awa' tae ye whan it's time I wis sittin' doon tae anither ane!
2. Anew, afresh, over again. Now rare except in compounds (see branch II.). †all new: all over again (obsolete).See also new and new adv.
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the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > anew or again
moeOE
of newOE
yetOE
againOE
newlyOE
once morelOE
anewc1305
newa1325
i-gainc1325
againwardc1380
upon new1399
freshlya1413
newlings1440
of the newc1449
afreshc1450
of (also on) fresh1490
for the newc1535
backwardly1552
over againa1568
over1598
de novo1627
all over1811
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 849 (MED) Y nelle namore of þis vyne Drinke ar eft þulke day þat ich..Drynke wiþ ȝow al nywe in my ffader kyngdom.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3029 Gode lawes þat were aleyd, nywe he let make.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 188 Morganes folk cam newe Of [read On] rouland riis þe gode.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 26908 (MED) He sal wit right all neu be scriuen.
a1425 in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 71 (MED) Euery day þou woundist me newe.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 103 My besy gost, that thursteth alwey newe To seen this flour.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1224 His fatell hour I will nocht fenȝe new.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxixv They must nedes be driuen newe, and hardened agayne.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 292 I Richards bodie haue interred new.
1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ i. §18 This statute was commanded new againe.
1678 T. Shipman Henry III of France v. ii. 61 Com. Those two grand Scenes of horrour and of blisse..Let us present unto his wondring view. Bur. They both are ready here and painted new.
II. With a following word qualified by the adverb (in later use usually hyphenated). In most senses now literary or archaic.Common only after the mid 16th cent. In later use the number of such forms is practically unlimited; Cotgrave uses them to render a number of French words in re- (both past participles, as ‘reaplani, new-levelled’, and verbs), and a large collection from various writers is given in Jodrell's dictionary. Those which have most frequently been employed as compounds, in attributive use, are entered as headwords.
With the Old English formations with past participles at sense 3 cf. the numerous Old Icelandic formations in ný-, as nýfundinn, -gefinn, -tekinn, etc.
In some quotations illustrating predicative use it is not clear whether new and the following word are to be taken as a fixed adjectival compound. All such examples have, however, been placed here for convenience.
3. With past participles used attributively in the sense ‘newly, recently, freshly’.
a. With past participles of intransitive verbs.Recorded earliest in new-come adj.
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OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. x. 14 (margin) Biscope is forbod[en] þæt he onfoe niw [e] cumenum preo[st] & to gehælgenne ferunga.
1489 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 114/1 xij new calfit ky price of þe pece xxx s.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcij The husbandman ought first to tast of the new growen frute.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 16/2 The lyke..reason of late renued by a certayne newe start Englysh Clarke.
?1614 W. Drummond Song: It was the time in Poems The Lockes of Amber Of new bloom'd Sicamors.
1618 P. Holderus tr. J. van Oldenbarneveld Barneuel's Apol. Ded. sig. A2 The tottering and extreme ruine of the new vpstart Arminians.
1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 285 This sight and voice so filled the eyes and ears of the new arrived company..as that [etc.].
a1700 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 44 Bright Gabriel new-departed Souls collects.
1786 R. Burns Poems 202 While new-ca'd kye rowte at the stake.
1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 110 To make sad havock..among the new-flown swallows.
1846 C. G. Prowett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound 42 To cower beneath These new-grown gods.
?1855 T. W. Read New Pastoral xvi, in Poet. Wks. (1883) 127 See, where the red and new-arisen sun Points his bright finger through the upland grove!
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) i. xii. 110 The new-landed traveller becomes aware of a broad fresh-water lagoon.
1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd vii. i. 287 The peaceful produce of the grange,..new-kerned apples, hairy gooseberries green.
1998 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 June b1/1 The library paid too much..to unpack new arrived books, place them in plastic jackets..and get them on shelves.
b. With past participles of transitive verbs.
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eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) vi. xxxii. 151 Þa wæs he sume niht an anum nicealtan [OE Tiber. niwcilctan] huse.
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Josh. (Claud.) ix. 12 We mid us namon nigbacene hlafas.
a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 96 (MED) I am a new-cristend childe.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 12 (MED) Newe chosen kniȝtes schul be tauȝte to kepe degree and ordre in goyng and ryding.
c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 406 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 315 Caile & leikis faire..cummyne of nev sawine seide.
?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Ciij Suche other, newe forged muses nyne.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) Prol. l. 56 in Shorter Poems (1967) 10 The purgit ayr with new engendrit hete.
1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme f. 2 Otherwise we should daily forge our selues new-fayned Religions.
1602 tr. Ovid Salmacis & Hermaphroditus 602 A blushing red..euer since remain'd vpon her face, In token of her new receiu'd disgrace.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 115 The ripe and new-gathered Mulberries.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 263 When he came to act upon this new-erected stage.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 66 My new-accepted guest I haste to find.
1767 Anc. Songs & Ballads III. 142 The lovely little infant yonge, The mother being dead, Resigned its new received breath To him that had it made.
1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) I. xxvii. 177 Discovering a fat new-shorn pate.
1800 W. Wordsworth Brothers 358 He had gone forth among the new-dropped lambs.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xi. 60 Illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 32 You can't want new-dug graves daily.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 150 Steam of newbaked jampuffs.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 7 The wheels kicking up a frenzied cloud of new-cut grass.
1999 A. Soueif Map of Love (2000) 400 If you could see the children, making kangaroo-pockets of their galabiyyas to gather in them the new-plucked cotton.
4.
a. With past participles used predicatively, or in a postmodifying non-finite clause, with the sense ‘newly, recently, freshly’.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1354 (MED) It is william þat is newe kniȝted.
c1395 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 3 Ye ride as coy and stille as dooth a mayde Were newe spoused.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1122 There nas courser..Ne jewel..Ne coupe of gold, with floreyns newe ybete..That Dido ne hath it Eneas ysent.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 77 He broght þaim owder a swyne or a schepe new slayn.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Comm. on Canticles (Univ. Oxf. 64) in Psalter (1884) 516 Sere errours..new broght vp thorgh entysynge of þe deuyll.
1530 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 36 The chalmer new biggett for the curate.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 1 b He..found him at the table, but new dined.
1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. H3v He is but newe gone out at the gate.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. xlvi. 372 Like a man new-turn'd to marble stone.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 28 Stone..new taken out of the Quarry.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 289 Every hypothesis that is new-propos'd and untri'd.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 117 in Wks. (1721) II. Allotting Mansions ev'ry Day, For all new-stript of Clay.
1745 E. Young Consolation 65 As new-awak'd, I lift A more enlighten'd Eye.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 53 His fleecy vest New-woven he put on.
1817 J. Keats I stood Tip-toe 8 The clouds were pure and white as flocks new shorn.
1878 O. Wilde Ravenna 13 Thou hast not drunk this wine From grapes new-crushed.
1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 131 Now here was I, new-awakened.
1928 D. Barnes Ryder xxvi. 145 In..the jungle you had turds of some account, beasts paying back the earth in coin new minted.
1978 C. Tomlinson Shaft 25 Over fields, new-turned.
†b. Similarly (though less commonly) with adjectives. Obsolete.Chiefly with dead; cf. new-dead adj. See also sense 8b.
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?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) xxxi. 140 Þai ware..so fresch as þai had bene euen new deed.
1594 G. Peele Battell of Alcazar iv Fame..on the tree as fruit new ripe to fall, Placeth the crownes of these vnhappie kings.
1722 R. Blackmore Redemption iv. 230 The pow'r..That raises men new dead, and scarcely cold, Is not of such superior kind.
?1884–5 E. Arnold tr. Song Celestial ii The man new-dead Is, like the man new-born, still living man.
5. With past participles used predicatively, or in a postmodifying non-finite clause, in the sense ‘anew, again, afresh’.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 20215 (MED) Quen scho was schod and neu [a1400 Gött. wele] clad, To ihesu crist a bone scho badde.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 892 They knew hym nat, for he was new dysgysed.
1485 Device Coronation Henry VII in W. Jerdan Rutland Papers (1842) 23 The King, thus unaraied,..shalbe by the said Chamberlayn new arraied.
a1500 Roberd of Cisyle (Cambr. Ff.2.38) (1879) 161 Thy crowne schalle be newe schorne.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxxvi. 113 A m. horses let to be new shode.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvii. 314 To be as it were newfurbished, to scoure of the greate Rust.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido v Æneas, wherefore goe thy men abourd? Why are thy ships new rigd?
a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover v. i. 71 in 3 New Playes (1655) Here he comes, With his Officers, new rigg'd.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westm. 235 So many houses daily new-dipt, assume to themselves new names.
1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 112 The same day..he was new proclaimed.
1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 288 The self-same picture, new modified.
1787 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 207 I have ordered her [sc. a ship] to be new bolted.
1794 J. MacPhail Treat. Culture Cucumber 73 When frames are new painted, they should be suffered to lie and sweeten for some time.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. ci. 195 Then cheerly to your work again With hearts new-brac'd and set.
1847 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 394 When the parlour is new-papered.
1859 Ld. Lytton Wanderer (ed. 2) 180 The streets are new-peopled: the morning is bright.
1959 P. O'Brian Unknown Shore ix. 180 They must be new-stropped.
6.
a. With active forms of transitive verbs, in the sense ‘anew, again, afresh’.
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1442 Rolls of Parl. V. 44/1 Persons..that will..newe edifie and bilde anothir Brigge.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. c. 120 The king of Englond toke pleasure to newe reedefy the Castell of Wyndsore.
1564 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 569 Item for scoweryng and newe trimmyng fower stories of olde yron at ijs. vjd. the storie, xjs.
1570 Norton & Sackville's Gorboduc Printer to Rdr. They..haue..new apparelled, trimmed and attired her.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B5v Streams of purple bloud new die the verdant fields.
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. ii. sig. K3v Thus I new marry him whose wife I am.
1658 S. Slater Rhetorical Rapture (broadside) in J. W. Draper Cent. Broadside Elegies (1928) 81 Griev'd Tyber, crimson'd with Companions gore, New-sleeks in her own wash Romes rivell'd Whore.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 13 June (1972) VII. 166 She had new-whitened the house all below stairs.
1704 in J. Swift Tale of Tub Bookseller to Rdr. sig. A6v I have been lately alarm'd with Intelligence of a surreptitious Copy, which a certain great Wit had new polish'd and refin'd.
1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 84. ⁋2 They will new-plait and adjust your neckcloth.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 299 The Commodore..sent Assistance to get her off and new-moor her.
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath i. 19 To scour and new line the coachmans and footman's old frocks.
1803 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 36 The whole nation exerting itself to new-floor the government-house.
1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. 119 Separating, combining, and new-modifying them to serve to him most useful purposes.
a1861 E. B. Browning Void in Law vii He thinks that..he'll new-stamp the ore?
1902 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 759 Consider his ‘little book’..which reconstructs and new-paints the Bible.
1928 E. Blunden Retreat 42 And at one glad look new-rendering Whatever joy in tree is dreaming.
b. With active forms of intransitive verbs. rare.
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a1750 A. Hill Psalm civ, in Wks. (1753) 159 And, then, new-wakes the day! Out breaks the sun, and, to their dens, the beasts fly swift away!
a1885 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 193 As sure as what is most sure, sure as that spring primroses Shall new-dapple next year.
a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 185 Say it is áshboughs: whether on a December day and furled Fast ór they in clammyish lashtender combs creep Apart wide and new-nestle at heaven most high.
1998 On the Edge June 9/1 Quality development and sensitivity towards existing routes should be key considerations when new-routing.
7. With verbal nouns. Now rare.Some early instances of hyphenated and two-word forms cannot readily be distinguished from new adj.
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a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 171 (MED) In þe same ȝere þe kyng began þe newe edifiyng of Wyndesore, and mad Maystir William Wikham suruiour of þe same werk.
1484–6 Churchwardens' Accts. Wigtoft, Lincs. in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 78 Paide for neweshotyng of the grete bell claper.
1526 R. Amadas Acct. Plate made for Cardinal Wolsey in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. xxviii. 317 Item the new dressing uppe of twoo odar Goblitts matche to the same new Goblitte..iijs. iiijd.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Reedification A..reedifying, new-building.
1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage x The augmentation for the workmanship was not allowed for the new melting of the Clippings, but because [etc.].
1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph I. 205 Mr. Arnold has given some necessary orders for the new decking of his person.
1926 B. Karloren Philol. & Ancient China iii. 50 In later times, when the old literature had already got such a nimbus that one did not venture to go beyond the compass of its vocabulary, this new-creating of symbols ceased altogether.
1949 S. Spender Edge of Being 14 Such joy my new-awaking proves Each day—until I start to care.
8.
a. With present participles of intransitive verbs. Now rare in predicative use.
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a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 81 Fresche flour of ȝouthe, new germyng to burgeoun.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. sig. ¶iiijv The byrth & beginning of all creatures new comming into the worlde.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. K3v We might well want words, but neuer matter, of which..we should euer haue new budding occasions.
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K4 Experience for me many bulwarkes builded Of proofs new bleeding.
1611 A. Lanyer Salue Deus Rex Iudæorum sig. Gv This faire Queene of Sheba came from farre, To reuerence this new appearing starre.
1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love iv. i. 30 We slide on the back of a new-falling Star.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 702 Down her pale cheek new-streaming sorrow flows.
1817 Ld. Byron Manfred ii. ii. 34 On the swift whirl of the new breaking wave.
1820 J. Trumbull Poet. Wks. II. 108 Prove to the world in these new-dawning skies, What genius kindles and what arts arise.
a1861 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 294 Odours of new-budding rose.
1895 Outing 26 443/1 Patches of the new-starting rushes.
1930 E. Blunden Poems 291 Here's the true blood that will not shirk life's new-commanding needs.
1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. (Appointments section) 17/10 (advt.) Our client..seeks two senior surveyors..to sell conventional and addressable systems to new-existing clients.
†b. With adjectives derived from Latin present participles, as new-emergent, new-intrant. Obsolete. rare.
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1607 Yester Writs 285 To obtene and get new intrant honest man.
1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr xi. 327 Not vpon new emergent matter, but vpon better knowledge of the former.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 124 So vigorous a construction of a little City, not super-edefied upon an old bottom, but upstart and new-emergent from the ground.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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