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in-nŏvo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I.to renew, alter.
I. Lit.: “plurima innovare instituit,” Dig. 1, 2, 2 fin.—So in part. pass.: innŏ-vātus , a, um, renewed, Min. Fel. Oct. 11 fin.; Lact. 7, 22 med.—
II. Transf.: se ad aliquam rem, to return to a thing: “se ad suam intemperantiam,” Cic. Pis. 36, 89.—As a translation of καινιεῖ, Vulg. Eccli. 38, 30: vox mallei innovat aurem, the noise of the hammer is ever in his ears.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Against Piso, 36.89
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 38.30
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