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f things ancient doth argue stayedness, but levity and want of experience maketh apt unto innovations. Hooker.

One who favors innovation.

on; 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.

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

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

Characterized by, or introducing, innovations. Fitzed. Hall.

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

An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.

Innovation. [Obs.] I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of distempers in commonwealths. Laud.

Innovation. [Obs.]

r signification, came to be abusively applied to denote motive, end, final cause.... This innovation was probably borrowed from the French. Sir. W. Hamilton. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. D. Webster.

raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could. Shak.