NOVATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does novate mean? • NOVATE (verb)
The verb NOVATE has 1 sense:
1. replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one
Familiarity information: NOVATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NOVATE (verb)
Meaning:
Replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "novate" is one way to...):
replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))
Domain category:
civil law; jus civile; Justinian code; Roman law (the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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