Obs. [perh. represents OE. edniwian, f. ed again + NEW; perh. a later formation with A- pref. 1. Cf. OHG. irniuwôn, mod.G. erneuen.] To renew.

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[a. 1000.  O. E. Psalms (Sp.), ciii. 31. Ðú edniwast ansine eorþan.]

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1399.  Rich. Redeless, III. 24. [The hart] ffedith him on the venym his ffelle to a-newe.

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a. 1500[?].  MS. Lincoln Med., 284. Tak May butter and comyne … and thane laye it on the eghe, and ofte anewe it.

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1579.  Fulke, Heskins’s Parl., 503. Hee anueth also a saying of Oecumenius.

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1690.  Lady R. Russell, in Four Cent. Eng. Lett., 130. You must anew in practice that submission you have so powerfully tried.

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