novuii, Ir. nua, nuadh, Gael. nuadh, W. newydd, Armor. nevez, L. novus, Gr. Skr. nava, and
prob. to E. now. &radic263. See Now, and cf. Announce, Innovate, Neophyte, Novel.]
1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having
recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; —
opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. "Your new wife." Chaucer.
2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new
metal; a new planet; new scenes.
3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a
new course or direction.
4. As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as,
rest and travel made him a new man.
Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life.
Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new.
Bacon. 5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously known or famous. Addison.
6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace.
Pope. 7. Fresh from anything; newly come.
New from her sickness to that northern air.
Dryden. New birth.
See under Birth. — New Church, or New Jerusalem Church, the church holding the
doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See Swedenborgian. — New heart (Theol.), a heart or
character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. — New land,
land ckeared and cultivated for the first time. — New light. (Zoöl.) See Crappie. — New moon. (a)
The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new
moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. 2 Kings
iv. 23. — New Red Sandstone (Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal
measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone. — New style. See
Style. — New testament. See under Testament. — New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; —
so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times.
Syn. — Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel.
New
(New) adv. Newly; recently. Chaucer.
New is much used in composition, adverbially, in the sense of newly, recently, to quality other words,
as in new-born, new-formed, new-found, new- mown.
Of new,
anew. [Obs.] Chaucer.
New
(New), v. t. & i. To make new; to renew. [Obs.]