new-model
See also: newmodel
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom new model, apparently with reference to the reorganisation of the English Parliament 1644–45.
Verb
editnew-model (third-person singular simple present new-models, present participle new-modelling or new-modeling, simple past and past participle new-modelled or new-modeled)
- (transitive, now rare) To give a new form to; to remodel. [from 17th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (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 […] .