| novate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. novate | replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one. |
| ~ jus civile, justinian code, roman law, civil law | the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law. |
| ~ replace | substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected).; "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced" |
| recent | | |
| n. (time) | 1. holocene, holocene epoch, recent, recent epoch | approximately the last 10,000 years. |
| ~ age of man, quaternary, quaternary period | last 2 million years. |
| ~ epoch | a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages. |
| adj. | 2. recent | new.; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees" |
| ~ new | not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered.; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" |
| adj. | 3. late, recent | of the immediate past or just previous to the present time.; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal" |
| ~ past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| lately | | |
| adv. | 1. late, lately, latterly, of late, recently | in the recent past.; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also" |
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