Forms: α. 1 of-niowe, 4–6 of newe, 5– of new. β. 4–6 of the new(e, 7 of anew. γ. 4–6 on new. δ. 4 onew, 5 anewe, 6– anew. [A-new, earlier o-new, prob. for of new: cf. of old, and see A- pref. 3. OE. had e·dniwan, e·dniwe (with stress on ed- which would not give anew·); also simple adv. niwan, 2–3 neowen, neowe, 3–4 newe, still in compounds new, as new-laid. For edniwan the Rushw. gloss has of niowe, and of newe is the common form from 14th to 16th c. The occasional on new is probably only bad form of oěnew. Cf. also the Fr. equivalents de nouveau à nouveau, and à neuf.]
1. A second time as a new trial or action, over again, afresh, once more.
α. [c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., John iii. 7. Eow ʓebyrað þætte ʓe beon acennede edniwan.]
c. 975. Rushw., ibid. Bihorað iow alle (nasci) of-niowe.
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, I. ii. (1544), 5 a. Nimrod … in his errour procedeth forth of new.
1509. Barclay, Ship of Fooles (1570), ¶¶ j. It was expedient that of newe some lettered man … shoulde awake and touche the open vices of fooles..
1636. Rutherford, Lett., 66 (1862), I. 174. I find old sores bleeding of new.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais (1859), I. 116. Should take good heart of new.
1865. M‘Lennan, Prim. Marriage, viii. 228. The threads of legal history … began to unwind themselves, of new, after the completion of a social revolution.
β. c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 378. Therfore y wole not thilk processe here aȝen of the newe reherce.
1535. Coverdale, 1 Kings xx. 22. The kynge of Syria shall come agaynst the of the New.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 624. He … occupyit all Ingland of the new.
1653. H. More, Conject. Cabbal. (1713), 95. He now creates nothing of anew.
γ. c. 1380. Wyclif, Three Treat., 27. Newe customs … bi which thei spuylen on new the puple.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., I. 382. And stoutlie straik with greit curage on new.
δ. c. 1340. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 65. Nowel nayted o-newe, neuened ful ofte.
1494. Fabyan, IV. lxx. 49. Nat longe after, the sayd Octauius gaderyd anewe people of Britons and Norways.
1535. Coverdale, Jer. xviii. 4. So he beganne a new, and made another vessell.
1604. Shaks., Oth., IV. i. 85. For I will make him tell the Tale anew.
1696. Whiston, Th. Earth, IV. (1722), 325. The Sun would anew hide himself in a thick Mist.
1770. Burke, Pres. Discont., Wks. II. 229. The power of the crown almost dead and rotten … has grown up anew.
1846. Keble, Lyra Innoc. (1873), 50. Then died away, then rose and moaned anew.
1866. Kingsley, Herew., vi. 125. They sped him forth to begin life anew.
2. In a new or different way from the previous.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Clerk’s T., 882. Ther kan no man … been half so trewe As wommen been, but it be falle of newe.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 5174. If I hate men of newe, More than love it wole me rewe.
1632. Shaks., Cent. Praise, 191. To steere th’ affections, and by heavenly fire Mould us anew.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 447, ¶ 1. Custom is a second Nature. It is indeed able to form the Man anew.
1807. Crabbe, Par. Reg., II. 253. Now clothed himself anew, and acted overseer.
1843. J. Martineau, Chr. Life, 77. The system is edited anew.
† 3. Newly, freshly, recently; in opposition to of old.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Three Treat., 3. Thes synnen not of the newe but purgen her olde synnes.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 3875. His falsenesse is not now ancw, It is too long that he him knew.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 532. Religiosite foundun of newe bi men … sett and joyned with the al hool lawe of Crist.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., xxix. iii. He wente to lande … And wedde there one that was comen anewe.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 609. Sic aventure wes hapnit of the new.
1728. Col. Records Penn., III. 294. They had of new visited the said ship.
† 4. Newly, as something new, in opposition to what has existed long and is now old. Obs.
c. 1543. W. Clebe, MS. Addit., No. 4609. Hath made … a new halle with a squillery, saucery, and surveyng place, al of new.
1570. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), I. 357. He restored the other two to their former beauties, and furthermore erected two other of new.
1582. Durh. Wills & Inv. (1860), 88. One cundithe of leade, which was made of new.
