Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To innovate; specifically, to coin new words or phrases; neologize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To innovate; to coin or introduce new words.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
neologize , to coin as a new word. - verb intransitive to
modernize .
Etymologies
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Since the 1870s; after Ancient Greek νεωτερίζω ("to (forcibly) innovate; to revolutionize") (an -ιζειν derivation of νεώτερος, the comparative of νέος "new")); neoteric + -ize.
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