renovatev.

Brit.

/ˈrɛnəveɪt/, U.S.

/ˈrɛnəˌveɪt/

Forms: 1500s–1600s renouate, 1500s– renovate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin renovāt-, renovāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin renovāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of renovāre to restore, renew, to refresh, revive, to recommence, resume, to repeat, to bring back, in post-classical Latin also (in spiritual context) to renew, regenerate (Vulgate) < re- re- prefix + novāre novate v. Compare Anglo-Norman renuver , Anglo-Norman and Middle French renover (1119 in Anglo-Norman; French rénover ), Old Occitan renovar , Catalan renovar (1460), Spanish renovar (a1250), Portuguese renovar (13th cent.), Italian rinnovare (a1292 as †rinovare ). Compare earlier renovate adj., and also earlier renew v.¹, renovel v., renule v.

†1.

a. transitive. To renew, resume (an action, relationship, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > again

renovela1325

renewa1387

resumec1400

renove?c1425

anewc1440

reassume1472

to take again1474

take1477

reprise1481

recommencea1513

renovate1535

to take up1587

rebegin1598

reopen1756

1535 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 416 That..ye take som occasion at conuenyent tyme..to renovate the saide communycacyon..with the Frensh kyng.

1580 A. Saker Narbonus ii. 106 The beautifull Bankes ended their vnhappines, by renouatinge their forepassed freendship.

1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 21 Then prince Edwarde renouating his purpose, tooke shipping againe.

1656 J. Davies tr. M. de Scudéry Clelia II. ii. 51 'Tis not that she would renovate her affection with this Prince..but she at least would not have been displeas'd if she could have excus'd her self to him.

b. transitive. To renew or revive the effect of. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > to activity

revivea1513

renovatea1555

reawaken1708

refuel1792

whip1835

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > renovate or renew

newOE

freshc1300

renovela1325

renewa1382

renulec1384

refreshc1425

repairc1425

anewc1440

ennew1523

renovatea1555

renove1588

regenerate1607

righta1656

reficiate1657

freshen1710

refreshen1780

to fresh up1831

recondition1857

renovize1932

a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) f. 51^v Whosoeuer..wittingly doth the self same sin again: he renouateth by so doyng al those sinnes which before times were forgiuen him.

a. transitive. To cause to be spiritually reborn (in early use esp. in passive); to invest with a new and higher spiritual nature. Cf. regenerate v. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > renovate or renew > renew on a higher plane

regeneratea1525

renovate1546

1546 J. Bale tr. J. Jonas True Hystorie Christen Departynge M. Luther f. 5 To thys full knowledge shall we come after thys lyfe, beyng renouated in Christ.

1592 A. Willet Synopsis Papismi xii. vi. 438 They which fall away from faith and grace, after Baptisme, cannot be baptized againe, or be illuminated, or renouated, by so easie a cleansing of sinnes, as the Sacrament of Baptisme did yeeld.

a1616 J. Smith Expos. Creed (1632) 92 None is renovated but such as fell away, but the elect Angels fell not away, and therefore needed not renovation.

1698 B. Keach Display of Glorious Grace iv. 95 The Holy Spirit is given to unite us to Christ, to quicken us, to illuminate our Minds, and to renovate our Soul.

1794 T. Dwight Greenfield Hill ii. 52 All hail, thou western world! by heaven design'd Th' example bright, to renovate mankind.

1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames ix. 281 The great object of renovating the morals of the labouring classes.

1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation v. 187 The Gospel..will renovate the soul.

1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xl. 638 Charity failed to renovate With hope those fallen; with faith those sin-deceived; With trust in God those erst who misbelieved.

1919 Catholic World Sept. 724 The Council of Trent renovated the spirit of Christendom; and faith, purified and regulated by discipline, produced a superabundance of vocations.

1997 P. Auslander From Acting to Performance ii. 13 Two concepts of theatre that share the lofty goal of renovating the human spirit through the revelation of universal truths.

b. transitive. To replace with something new or fresh of the same kind. Cf. renew v.¹ 5a. rare.

ΚΠ

1876 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. xiii. 157 The art displayed on the Persian coinage seems to have been renovated.

1912 K. Tynan Princess Katharine viii. 86 She had renovated her mother's shocking wardrobe. She had got rid of all the ragged, frayed dresses and down-at-heel slippers.

1967 W. H. Thomson Hist. Manch. xxix. 289 Manchester rejoiced with the rest of the country when the coinage was renovated in 1817.

a. transitive. To restore to a previous condition by replacing lost or damaged parts or elements; (more generally) to improve the condition of, esp. to restore (something old, esp. a building) to a good state of repair. Formerly also: †to recreate (obsolete).

ΚΠ

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 13 Ethelwolde..did clerely renovate and augmentid this Abbay.

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Renouate, renew, or repaire.

1682 J. Partridge tr. A. von Mynsicht Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum i. 8 The strength of the fire contained in it, which doth not only consume the lethal humors, but also doth repair and renovate the very marrow in the Bones.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. vii. 140 Secondary qualities..are continually destroyed and renovated according to the changes made in that order by motions of the component parts.

1788 A. Hamilton in Federalist Papers xvi. 97 Its more natural death is what we now seem to be on the point of experiencing, if the federal system be not speedily renovated in a more substantial form.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 213 The ices of the Poles, then, renovate the waters of the Sea, as the ices of mountains renovate those of the great rivers.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab v. 59 Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world.

1855 Rep. & Realities from Sketch-bk. Manager Rosine Assoc. (Rosine Assoc. of Philadelphia) 369 She had fallen in love..with a young painter, who had come to renovate the old building with his brush and paint-kettle.

1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 11 If he thoroughly renovates his blood by expelling all the impure air.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 211/3 The house was an old one, renovated and slightly modernized, with a porch on one side and a piazza on the other, and a little bow-window for plants.

1872 Jewish Chron. 10 May 80/2 ‘Clobbering’—a technical term for ‘renovating’ old garments.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 187 These movements must be of great service in renovating the surface of the earth.

1907 Musical Times 48 89/2 In 1690 it [sc. the organ] was renovated by Renatus Harris when its Recorder and second Principal was changed for a Flute and Nason.

1926 C. G. Cumston Introd. Hist. Med. x. 139 Metasyncrisis simply consists in renovating the pores of the organism, and its process is composed of several periods, which together form a cycle.

1940 T. Wolfe & E. C. Aswell You can't go Home Again v. xxxvi. 606 They..renovated the fine old houses with just a shade too much of whimsey.

1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) iv. 145 The most venerable antiquities are imperilled by instinctive desires to renovate and rid them of patina.

2006 Daily Tel. 2 Mar. 1/3 Many families were also ‘overmortgaging’ when buying houses, borrowing extra under the guise of renovating their new homes.

b. transitive. To reinvigorate, refresh. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > refresh or invigorate [verb (transitive)]

akeleOE

restOE

comfort1303

ease1330

quickc1350

recurea1382

refresha1382

refetec1384

restorec1384

affilea1393

enforcec1400

freshc1405

revigour?a1425

recomfortc1425

recreatec1425

quicken?c1430

revive1442

cheerc1443

refection?c1450

refect1488

unweary1530

freshen1532

corroborate1541

vige?c1550

erect?1555

recollect?1560

repose1562

respite1565

rouse1574

requicken1576

animate1585

enlive1593

revify1598

inanimate1600

insinew1600

to wind up1602

vigorize1603

inspiritc1610

invigour1611

refocillate1611

revigorate1611

renovate1614

spriten1614

repaira1616

activate1624

vigour1636

enliven1644

invigorate1646

rally1650

reinvigorate1652

renerve1652

to freshen up1654

righta1656

re-enlivena1660

recruita1661

enlighten1667

revivify1675

untire1677

reanimate1694

stimulate1759

rebrace1764

refreshen1780

brisken1799

irrigate1823

tonic1825

to fresh up1835

ginger1844

spell1846

recuperate1849

binge1854

tone1859

innerve1880

fiercen1896

to tone up1896

to buck up1909

pep1912

to zip up1927

to perk up1936

to zizz up1944

hep1948

to zing up1948

juice1964

1614 R. Brathwait Poets Willow 67 Vp from the sea to earth doth Sol ascend Seeming anew to renouate his force.

1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 44 Othersome [quintessences] there are to be found, that Renovate, and Restore; that is, such as transmute the Body, Bloud, and Flesh.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 125 It renovateth old Trees that of twenty years have brought forth no fruit.

1759 J. Grainger tr. Tibullus Elegies II. vii. 120 Your Eyes with Tears o'erflow, This moving Object renovates your Woe.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. iv. 96 The spirit of St. Aubert was renovated.

1807 Salmagundi 24 Nov. 367 A little warm nourishment renovated him for a short time.

1853 E. E. Stuart Let. 29 June in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) I. 538 She is too valuable to lose, and besides, it will renovate her—the change will benefit her.

1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 1 Aug. 226/3 We must seek to renovate where we have heretofore carried off successive crops until the soil was reduced to the point of exhaustion.

1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 542 The Spanish exiled intellectuals..returned to renovate Spanish letters with native literary forms.

1964 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 796/3 Lettrism is a creative movement..which claims to be able first to revolutionize every aesthetic discipline..from poetry to the theatre, by way of painting, and then to renovate the other cultural domains, whether philosophical or scientific.

1998 K. Eshun More Brilliant than Sun i. 12 Atlantic Futurism is always building Futurhythmachines, sensory technologies, instruments which renovate perception, which synthesize new states of mind.

†4. intransitive. To revive, recover. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > become refreshed or invigorated [verb (intransitive)]

to take (one's, a) breatha1398

to pull, shake oneself togethera1400

wheta1400

recomfortc1425

revigour1447

breathe1485

respirea1500

convailc1500

unweary1530

air1633

recruit1644

refresh1644

reanimate1645

invigorate1646

rally1646

to perk upa1656

renovate1660

reawake1663

freshen1694

renervate1801

recuperate1843

to recharge one's (also the) batteries1911

1660 J. Harding tr. B. Valentine Triumphant Chariot Antimony 89 The..oyl..causeth that whatsoever Excrescenscies grow on man, as Nailes hair, &c. fall away, and new to be generated in their room; so renovating as if a man were but newly born.

1790 By-stander 13 [Like a fountain] scattering its translucent pearls on the drooping flowers, which renovate at their touch.

1812 Henry & Isabella II. 258 His exhausted mind and body would here renovate in repose.

†5. transitive. To restore (a person) to office. Cf. rehabilitate v. 1a. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > reinstate

restorea1387

reseize?a1425

repose1552

revest1563

reinstall1595

reseat1606

reinstate1616

renovate1816

1816 Ann. Reg. 1815 Gen. Hist. 64/1 They were also to renovate the members of the councils-general of department.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	renovate
释义	† renovateadj. Forms: late Middle English–1500s renouate, 1800s renovate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin renovātus, renovāre. Etymology: < classical Latin renovātus, past participle of renovāre renovate v. Compare later renovate v. Obsolete (archaic and poetic in later use). Renewed, revived; restored.Chiefly as past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > renovating or renewing > renovated or renewed newedc1425 renovate?1440 renewed1483 newborn1594 born-again1913 rehabbed1967 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [adjective] > bringing into action > brought into action or set in operation > again renovate1548 renovated1650 reopened1842 restarted1863 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. 256 (MED) The vynes hie & of fecundite..About his thegh let no thyng growyng be, But if hit axe to be reuocate [vel] renouate [L. reuocari, v.r.renouari]. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth vi. f. 9 The name and glory of oure housholde by your manhode is renouate and renewed. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xvii^v To shewe that the warre was renouate without hys knowledge and assente. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 940 The king openly sware to keepe the new renouate league and amitie. 1820 J. A. Heraud Legend St. Loy iv. vi. 134 Wave in the Robber's sight the renovate brand, Like the spirit of Vengeance from Heaven swift-darted. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 50 Of use to the community? I trust Clairvaux thus renovate and regalised..Answers that question. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). renovatev. Brit. /ˈrɛnəveɪt/, U.S. /ˈrɛnəˌveɪt/ Forms: 1500s–1600s renouate, 1500s– renovate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin renovāt-, renovāre. Etymology: < classical Latin renovāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of renovāre to restore, renew, to refresh, revive, to recommence, resume, to repeat, to bring back, in post-classical Latin also (in spiritual context) to renew, regenerate (Vulgate) < re- re- prefix + novāre novate v. Compare Anglo-Norman renuver , Anglo-Norman and Middle French renover (1119 in Anglo-Norman; French rénover ), Old Occitan renovar , Catalan renovar (1460), Spanish renovar (a1250), Portuguese renovar (13th cent.), Italian rinnovare (a1292 as †rinovare ). Compare earlier renovate adj., and also earlier renew v.¹, renovel v., renule v. †1. a. transitive. To renew, resume (an action, relationship, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > again renovela1325 renewa1387 resumec1400 renove?c1425 anewc1440 reassume1472 to take again1474 take1477 reprise1481 recommencea1513 renovate1535 to take up1587 rebegin1598 reopen1756 1535 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 416 That..ye take som occasion at conuenyent tyme..to renovate the saide communycacyon..with the Frensh kyng. 1580 A. Saker Narbonus ii. 106 The beautifull Bankes ended their vnhappines, by renouatinge their forepassed freendship. 1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 21 Then prince Edwarde renouating his purpose, tooke shipping againe. 1656 J. Davies tr. M. de Scudéry Clelia II. ii. 51 'Tis not that she would renovate her affection with this Prince..but she at least would not have been displeas'd if she could have excus'd her self to him. b. transitive. To renew or revive the effect of. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > to activity revivea1513 renovatea1555 reawaken1708 refuel1792 whip1835 the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > renovate or renew newOE freshc1300 renovela1325 renewa1382 renulec1384 refreshc1425 repairc1425 anewc1440 ennew1523 renovatea1555 renove1588 regenerate1607 righta1656 reficiate1657 freshen1710 refreshen1780 to fresh up1831 recondition1857 renovize1932 a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) f. 51^v Whosoeuer..wittingly doth the self same sin again: he renouateth by so doyng al those sinnes which before times were forgiuen him. 2. a. transitive. To cause to be spiritually reborn (in early use esp. in passive); to invest with a new and higher spiritual nature. Cf. regenerate v. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > renovate or renew > renew on a higher plane regeneratea1525 renovate1546 1546 J. Bale tr. J. Jonas True Hystorie Christen Departynge M. Luther f. 5 To thys full knowledge shall we come after thys lyfe, beyng renouated in Christ. 1592 A. Willet Synopsis Papismi xii. vi. 438 They which fall away from faith and grace, after Baptisme, cannot be baptized againe, or be illuminated, or renouated, by so easie a cleansing of sinnes, as the Sacrament of Baptisme did yeeld. a1616 J. Smith Expos. Creed (1632) 92 None is renovated but such as fell away, but the elect Angels fell not away, and therefore needed not renovation. 1698 B. Keach Display of Glorious Grace iv. 95 The Holy Spirit is given to unite us to Christ, to quicken us, to illuminate our Minds, and to renovate our Soul. 1794 T. Dwight Greenfield Hill ii. 52 All hail, thou western world! by heaven design'd Th' example bright, to renovate mankind. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames ix. 281 The great object of renovating the morals of the labouring classes. 1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation v. 187 The Gospel..will renovate the soul. 1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xl. 638 Charity failed to renovate With hope those fallen; with faith those sin-deceived; With trust in God those erst who misbelieved. 1919 Catholic World Sept. 724 The Council of Trent renovated the spirit of Christendom; and faith, purified and regulated by discipline, produced a superabundance of vocations. 1997 P. Auslander From Acting to Performance ii. 13 Two concepts of theatre that share the lofty goal of renovating the human spirit through the revelation of universal truths. b. transitive. To replace with something new or fresh of the same kind. Cf. renew v.¹ 5a. rare. ΚΠ 1876 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. xiii. 157 The art displayed on the Persian coinage seems to have been renovated. 1912 K. Tynan Princess Katharine viii. 86 She had renovated her mother's shocking wardrobe. She had got rid of all the ragged, frayed dresses and down-at-heel slippers. 1967 W. H. Thomson Hist. Manch. xxix. 289 Manchester rejoiced with the rest of the country when the coinage was renovated in 1817. 3. a. transitive. To restore to a previous condition by replacing lost or damaged parts or elements; (more generally) to improve the condition of, esp. to restore (something old, esp. a building) to a good state of repair. Formerly also: †to recreate (obsolete). ΚΠ a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 13 Ethelwolde..did clerely renovate and augmentid this Abbay. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Renouate, renew, or repaire. 1682 J. Partridge tr. A. von Mynsicht Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum i. 8 The strength of the fire contained in it, which doth not only consume the lethal humors, but also doth repair and renovate the very marrow in the Bones. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. vii. 140 Secondary qualities..are continually destroyed and renovated according to the changes made in that order by motions of the component parts. 1788 A. Hamilton in Federalist Papers xvi. 97 Its more natural death is what we now seem to be on the point of experiencing, if the federal system be not speedily renovated in a more substantial form. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 213 The ices of the Poles, then, renovate the waters of the Sea, as the ices of mountains renovate those of the great rivers. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab v. 59 Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world. 1855 Rep. & Realities from Sketch-bk. Manager Rosine Assoc. (Rosine Assoc. of Philadelphia) 369 She had fallen in love..with a young painter, who had come to renovate the old building with his brush and paint-kettle. 1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 11 If he thoroughly renovates his blood by expelling all the impure air. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 211/3 The house was an old one, renovated and slightly modernized, with a porch on one side and a piazza on the other, and a little bow-window for plants. 1872 Jewish Chron. 10 May 80/2 ‘Clobbering’—a technical term for ‘renovating’ old garments. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 187 These movements must be of great service in renovating the surface of the earth. 1907 Musical Times 48 89/2 In 1690 it [sc. the organ] was renovated by Renatus Harris when its Recorder and second Principal was changed for a Flute and Nason. 1926 C. G. Cumston Introd. Hist. Med. x. 139 Metasyncrisis simply consists in renovating the pores of the organism, and its process is composed of several periods, which together form a cycle. 1940 T. Wolfe & E. C. Aswell You can't go Home Again v. xxxvi. 606 They..renovated the fine old houses with just a shade too much of whimsey. 1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) iv. 145 The most venerable antiquities are imperilled by instinctive desires to renovate and rid them of patina. 2006 Daily Tel. 2 Mar. 1/3 Many families were also ‘overmortgaging’ when buying houses, borrowing extra under the guise of renovating their new homes. b. transitive. To reinvigorate, refresh. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > refresh or invigorate [verb (transitive)] akeleOE restOE comfort1303 ease1330 quickc1350 recurea1382 refresha1382 refetec1384 restorec1384 affilea1393 enforcec1400 freshc1405 revigour?a1425 recomfortc1425 recreatec1425 quicken?c1430 revive1442 cheerc1443 refection?c1450 refect1488 unweary1530 freshen1532 corroborate1541 vige?c1550 erect?1555 recollect?1560 repose1562 respite1565 rouse1574 requicken1576 animate1585 enlive1593 revify1598 inanimate1600 insinew1600 to wind up1602 vigorize1603 inspiritc1610 invigour1611 refocillate1611 revigorate1611 renovate1614 spriten1614 repaira1616 activate1624 vigour1636 enliven1644 invigorate1646 rally1650 reinvigorate1652 renerve1652 to freshen up1654 righta1656 re-enlivena1660 recruita1661 enlighten1667 revivify1675 untire1677 reanimate1694 stimulate1759 rebrace1764 refreshen1780 brisken1799 irrigate1823 tonic1825 to fresh up1835 ginger1844 spell1846 recuperate1849 binge1854 tone1859 innerve1880 fiercen1896 to tone up1896 to buck up1909 pep1912 to zip up1927 to perk up1936 to zizz up1944 hep1948 to zing up1948 juice1964 1614 R. Brathwait Poets Willow 67 Vp from the sea to earth doth Sol ascend Seeming anew to renouate his force. 1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 44 Othersome [quintessences] there are to be found, that Renovate, and Restore; that is, such as transmute the Body, Bloud, and Flesh. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 125 It renovateth old Trees that of twenty years have brought forth no fruit. 1759 J. Grainger tr. Tibullus Elegies II. vii. 120 Your Eyes with Tears o'erflow, This moving Object renovates your Woe. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. iv. 96 The spirit of St. Aubert was renovated. 1807 Salmagundi 24 Nov. 367 A little warm nourishment renovated him for a short time. 1853 E. E. Stuart Let. 29 June in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) I. 538 She is too valuable to lose, and besides, it will renovate her—the change will benefit her. 1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 1 Aug. 226/3 We must seek to renovate where we have heretofore carried off successive crops until the soil was reduced to the point of exhaustion. 1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 542 The Spanish exiled intellectuals..returned to renovate Spanish letters with native literary forms. 1964 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 796/3 Lettrism is a creative movement..which claims to be able first to revolutionize every aesthetic discipline..from poetry to the theatre, by way of painting, and then to renovate the other cultural domains, whether philosophical or scientific. 1998 K. Eshun More Brilliant than Sun i. 12 Atlantic Futurism is always building Futurhythmachines, sensory technologies, instruments which renovate perception, which synthesize new states of mind. †4. intransitive. To revive, recover. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > become refreshed or invigorated [verb (intransitive)] to take (one's, a) breatha1398 to pull, shake oneself togethera1400 wheta1400 recomfortc1425 revigour1447 breathe1485 respirea1500 convailc1500 unweary1530 air1633 recruit1644 refresh1644 reanimate1645 invigorate1646 rally1646 to perk upa1656 renovate1660 reawake1663 freshen1694 renervate1801 recuperate1843 to recharge one's (also the) batteries1911 1660 J. Harding tr. B. Valentine Triumphant Chariot Antimony 89 The..oyl..causeth that whatsoever Excrescenscies grow on man, as Nailes hair, &c. fall away, and new to be generated in their room; so renovating as if a man were but newly born. 1790 By-stander 13 [Like a fountain] scattering its translucent pearls on the drooping flowers, which renovate at their touch. 1812 Henry & Isabella II. 258 His exhausted mind and body would here renovate in repose. †5. transitive. To restore (a person) to office. Cf. rehabilitate v. 1a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > reinstate restorea1387 reseize?a1425 repose1552 revest1563 reinstall1595 reseat1606 reinstate1616 renovate1816 1816 Ann. Reg. 1815 Gen. Hist. 64/1 They were also to renovate the members of the councils-general of department. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1440v.1535
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† renovateadj.

renovatev.