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- English Word Reforge Definition To forge again or anew; hence, to fashion or fabricate anew; to make over.
- English Word Reforger Definition One who reforges.
- English Word Reform Definition To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
- English Word Reform Definition To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
- English Word Reform Definition Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
- English Word Reformable Definition Capable of being reformed.
- English Word Reformade Definition A reformado.
- English Word Reformado Definition A monk of a reformed order.
- English Word Reformado Definition An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay.
- English Word Reformalize Definition To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
- English Word Reformation Definition The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.
- English Word Reformation Definition Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.
- English Word Reformative Definition Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.
- English Word Reformatory Definition Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
- English Word Reformatory Definition An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
- English Word Reformed Definition Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches.
- English Word Reformed Definition Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
- English Word Reformed Definition Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.
- English Word Reformer Definition One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
- English Word Reformer Definition One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
- English Word Reformist Definition A reformer.
- English Word Reformly Definition In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform.
- English Word Refortification Definition A fortifying anew, or a second time.
- English Word Refortify Definition To fortify anew.
- English Word Refossion Definition The act of digging up again.
- English Word Refound Definition To found or cast anew.
- English Word Refound Definition To found or establish again; to re/stablish.
- English Word Refound Definition imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.
- English Word Refounder Definition One who refounds.
- English Word Refract Definition To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.