new-model
verbEtymology From new model, apparently with reference to the reorganisation of the English Parliament 1644–45.
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Archaic To give a new form to; to remodel.
- Over and above the oddities I have mentioned, he is so unsteady in his œconomy, that he is always new modelling his affairs, and exhausting his fortune, by laying out ten pounds, in order to save a shilling […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- remodel