new-model

See also: newmodel

English

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Etymology

From new model, apparently with reference to the reorganisation of the English Parliament 1644–45.

Verb

new-model (third-person singular simple present new-models, present participle (US) new-modeling or (UK) new-modelling, simple past and past participle (US) new-modeled or (UK) new-modelled)

  1. (transitive, now rare) To give a new form to; to remodel. [from 17th c.]
    • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
      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 […] .

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