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NOVATE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
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
Derivation:
novation ((law) the replacement of one obligation by another by mutual agreement of both parties; usually the replacement of one of the original parties to a contract with the consent of the remaining party)
