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new-model, v.
[new adv. 6.]
trans. To remodel; to rearrange in a new way.
c1665Mrs. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1846) 231 Those in the parliament..devised to new-model the army. 1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. ii. 193 The design of whose religion is to new-model human nature. 1769Robertson Chas. V, v. Wks. 1813 V. 439 Twelve persons were elected to new-model the constitution of the republic. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. viii, He new-modelled his troops, and more especially those immediately about his person. 1878Sherman in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 200 That at the commencement of hostilities there should be nothing either to new-model or to create.
Hence new-modelling, new-modeller.
1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 146 The new modelling of a state is somewhat beyond the oeconomy of a school. 1748Anson's Voy. i. v. 48 To what causes the late new modelling of this settlement is owing. a1806C. J. Fox Reign Jas. II (1808) 153 From the new-modelling of the corporations. 1831Carlyle in Westm. Rev. XV. 43 Their successive redactors and new-modellers. 1899T. S. Baldock Cromwell as Soldier 206 The new modelling or reorganization of its army. |