Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Innovate

Innovate , transitive verb

[Latin innovatus, past participle of innovare to revew; pref. in- in + novare to make new, from novus new. See New.]

1.
To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. [Archaic]
2.
To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize. [Archaic] — Burton
From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship. — South

Innovate , intransitive verb

To introduce novelties or changes; -- sometimes with in or on. — Bacon
Every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate. — Dryden