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; surroundings. When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Addison. Not a circumstance, of no account. [Colloq.] -- Under the circumstances, taking all things into consideration.

Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.

To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines. Locke.

A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. Pothier.

An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

ateSee Polishing slate. -- Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.

To renew or renovate. [R.]

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

To renew or renovate; to instaurate. [Obs.] Marston.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. [Written also Mikmaks.]

An innovator in any doctrine or system of belif, especially in theology; one who introduces or holds doctrines subversie of supernatural or revealed religion; a rationalist, so-called.

To introduce innovations in doctrine, esp. in theological doctrine.

An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.

To innovate; to coin or introduce new words. Freely as we of the nineteenth century neoterize. fized. Hall.

made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man. Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new. Bacon.

Innovation. [Obs.]

An innovator; an asserter of novelty. [Obs.] Cudworth.

To innovate. [Obs.]