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

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

One who favors innovation.

renovated or renewed. Thomson. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. Rabbler.

; 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.

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.

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

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

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

An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.

Innovation. [Obs.]

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.

o poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementar…

Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More.

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

in, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. To second life Waked in the renovation of the just. Milton.