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reform
(mass) | reform
- reforma, reformovať |
re-form
(encz) | re-form, |
Reform
(gcide) | Reform \Re*form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. [F. r['e]former, L.
reformare; pref. re- re- + formare to form, from forma form.
See Form.]
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.
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an
age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
--Swift.
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Syn: To amend; correct; emend; rectify; mend; repair; better;
improve; restore; reclaim.
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Reform
(gcide) | Reform \Re*form"\, v. i.
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.
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Reform
(gcide) | Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
government.
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Civil service reform. See under Civil.
Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
representation in Parliament.
Reform school, a school established by a state or city
government, for the confinement, instruction, and
reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
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Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
Reformation.
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Re-form
(gcide) | Re-form \Re-form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Re-formed (-f?rmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Re-forming.]
To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or
to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
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reform
(devil) | REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to
reformation.
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REFORM
(bouvier) | REFORM. To reorganize; to rearrange as, the jury "shall be reformed by
putting to and taking out of the persons so impanelled." Stat. 3 H. VIII. c.
12; Bac. Ab. Juries, A.
2. To reform an instrument in equity, is to make a decree that a deed
or other agreement shall be made or construed as it was originally intended
by the parties, when an error or mistake as to a fact has been committed. A
contract has been reformed, although the party applying to the court was in
the legal profession, and he himself drew the contract, it appearing clear
that it was framed so as to admit of a construction inconsistent with the
true agreement of the parties. 1 Sim. & Stu. 210; 3 Russ. R. 424. But a
contract will not be reformed in consequence of an error of law. 1 Russ. &
M. 418; 1 Chit. Pr. 124.
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reform
(mass) | reform
- reforma, reformovať |
reformation
(mass) | reformation
- reformácia |
endospore-forming bacteria
(encz) | endospore-forming bacteria, n: |
re-form
(encz) | re-form, |
re-formation
(encz) | re-formation, n: |
re-formed
(encz) | re-formed, adj: |
spore-forming microorganism
(encz) | spore-forming microorganism,sporulující mikroorganismus [eko.] RNDr.
Pavel Piskač |
Civil service reform
(gcide) | Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
government.
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Civil service reform. See under Civil.
Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
representation in Parliament.
Reform school, a school established by a state or city
government, for the confinement, instruction, and
reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
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Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
Reformation.
[1913 Webster]Civil \Civ"il\, a. [L. civilis, fr. civis citizen: cf. F. civil.
See City.]
1. Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his
relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within
the city or state.
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2. Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not
barbarous; -- said of the community.
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England was very rude and barbarous; for it is but
even the other day since England grew civil.
--Spenser.
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3. Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to
government; -- said of an individual.
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Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others;
they come within a step or two of heaven. --Preston
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4. Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed
to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous;
complaisant; affable.
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Note: "A civil man now is one observant of slight external
courtesies in the mutual intercourse between man and
man; a civil man once was one who fulfilled all the
duties and obligations flowing from his position as a
'civis' and his relations to the other members of that
'civitas.'" --Trench
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5. Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from
military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
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6. Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit
distinct from criminal proceedings.
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Civil action, an action to enforce the rights or redress
the wrongs of an individual, not involving a criminal
proceeding.
Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in
constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in
distinction from military and naval architecture, as
private houses, palaces, churches, etc.
Civil death. (Law.) See under Death.
Civil engineering. See under Engineering.
Civil law. See under Law.
Civil list. See under List.
Civil remedy (Law), that given to a person injured, by
action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution.
Civil service, all service rendered to and paid for by the
state or nation other than that pertaining to naval or
military affairs.
Civil service reform, the substitution of business
principles and methods for the spoils system in the
conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of
appointments to office.
Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not
included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical
states.
Civil suit. Same as Civil action.
Civil war. See under War.
Civil year. See under Year.
[1913 Webster]Civil Service Reform \Civil Service Reform\
The substitution of business principles and methods for
political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp.
the merit system instead of the spoils system in making
appointments to office.
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Civil Service Reform
(gcide) | Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
government.
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Civil service reform. See under Civil.
Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
representation in Parliament.
Reform school, a school established by a state or city
government, for the confinement, instruction, and
reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
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Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
Reformation.
[1913 Webster]Civil \Civ"il\, a. [L. civilis, fr. civis citizen: cf. F. civil.
See City.]
1. Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his
relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within
the city or state.
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2. Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not
barbarous; -- said of the community.
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England was very rude and barbarous; for it is but
even the other day since England grew civil.
--Spenser.
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3. Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to
government; -- said of an individual.
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Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others;
they come within a step or two of heaven. --Preston
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4. Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed
to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous;
complaisant; affable.
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Note: "A civil man now is one observant of slight external
courtesies in the mutual intercourse between man and
man; a civil man once was one who fulfilled all the
duties and obligations flowing from his position as a
'civis' and his relations to the other members of that
'civitas.'" --Trench
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5. Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from
military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
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6. Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit
distinct from criminal proceedings.
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Civil action, an action to enforce the rights or redress
the wrongs of an individual, not involving a criminal
proceeding.
Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in
constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in
distinction from military and naval architecture, as
private houses, palaces, churches, etc.
Civil death. (Law.) See under Death.
Civil engineering. See under Engineering.
Civil law. See under Law.
Civil list. See under List.
Civil remedy (Law), that given to a person injured, by
action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution.
Civil service, all service rendered to and paid for by the
state or nation other than that pertaining to naval or
military affairs.
Civil service reform, the substitution of business
principles and methods for the spoils system in the
conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of
appointments to office.
Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not
included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical
states.
Civil suit. Same as Civil action.
Civil war. See under War.
Civil year. See under Year.
[1913 Webster]Civil Service Reform \Civil Service Reform\
The substitution of business principles and methods for
political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp.
the merit system instead of the spoils system in making
appointments to office.
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Irreformable
(gcide) | Irreformable \Ir`re*form"a*ble\, a.
Incapable of being reformed; incorrigible. --Joseph Cook.
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Misreform
(gcide) | Misreform \Mis`re*form"\, v. t.
To reform wrongly or imperfectly.
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Preform
(gcide) | Preform \Pre*form"\, v. t. [L. praeformare. See Pre-, and
Form.]
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and
preformed faculties. " --Shak.
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Preformation
(gcide) | Preformation \Pre`for*ma"tion\, n. (Biol.)
An old theory of the pre["e]xistence of germs. Cf.
{Embo[^i]tement}.
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Preformative
(gcide) | Preformative \Pre*form"a*tive\, n.
A formative letter at the beginning of a word. --M. Stuart.
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Reform
(gcide) | Reform \Re*form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. [F. r['e]former, L.
reformare; pref. re- re- + formare to form, from forma form.
See Form.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an
age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
--Swift.
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Syn: To amend; correct; emend; rectify; mend; repair; better;
improve; restore; reclaim.
[1913 Webster]Reform \Re*form"\, v. i.
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.
[1913 Webster]Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
government.
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Civil service reform. See under Civil.
Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
representation in Parliament.
Reform school, a school established by a state or city
government, for the confinement, instruction, and
reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
Reformation.
[1913 Webster]Re-form \Re-form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Re-formed (-f?rmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Re-forming.]
To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or
to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
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Reform acts
(gcide) | Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
government.
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Civil service reform. See under Civil.
Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
representation in Parliament.
Reform school, a school established by a state or city
government, for the confinement, instruction, and
reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
Reformation.
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Reform school
(gcide) | Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
government.
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Civil service reform. See under Civil.
Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
representation in Parliament.
Reform school, a school established by a state or city
government, for the confinement, instruction, and
reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
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Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
Reformation.
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Reformable
(gcide) | Reformable \Re*form"a*ble\ (r?*f?rm"?*b'l), a.
Capable of being reformed. --Foxe.
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Reformade
(gcide) | Reformade \Ref`or*made"\ (r?f`?r*m?d"), n.
A reformado. [Obs.]
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Reformado
(gcide) | Reformado \Ref`or*ma"do\ (-m?"d?), n. [Sp., fr. reformar, L.
reformare. SEe Reform, v. t.]
1. A monk of a reformed order. [Obs.] --Weever.
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2. An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command,
but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay. [Obs.]
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Reformalize
(gcide) | Reformalize \Re*form"al*ize\ (r?*f?rm"al*?z), v. i.
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. [R.]
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Re-formation
(gcide) | Re-formation \Re`-for*ma"tion\ (r?`f?r*m?"sh?n), n.
The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the
reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
[1913 Webster]Reformation \Ref`or*ma"tion\ (r?f`?r*m?"sh?n), n. [F.
r['e]formation, L. reformatio.]
1. 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.
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Satire lashes vice into reformation. --Dryden.
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2. 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.
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Syn: Reform; amendment; correction; rectification.
Usage: Reformation, Reform. Reformation is a more
thorough and comprehensive change than reform. It is
applied to subjects that are more important, and
results in changes which are more lasting. A
reformation involves, and is followed by, many
particular reforms. "The pagan converts mention this
great reformation of those who had been the greatest
sinners, with that sudden and surprising change which
the Christian religion made in the lives of the most
profligate." --Addison. "A variety of schemes, founded
in visionary and impracticable ideas of reform, were
suddenly produced." --Pitt.
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Reformation
(gcide) | Re-formation \Re`-for*ma"tion\ (r?`f?r*m?"sh?n), n.
The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the
reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
[1913 Webster]Reformation \Ref`or*ma"tion\ (r?f`?r*m?"sh?n), n. [F.
r['e]formation, L. reformatio.]
1. 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.
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Satire lashes vice into reformation. --Dryden.
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2. 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.
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Syn: Reform; amendment; correction; rectification.
Usage: Reformation, Reform. Reformation is a more
thorough and comprehensive change than reform. It is
applied to subjects that are more important, and
results in changes which are more lasting. A
reformation involves, and is followed by, many
particular reforms. "The pagan converts mention this
great reformation of those who had been the greatest
sinners, with that sudden and surprising change which
the Christian religion made in the lives of the most
profligate." --Addison. "A variety of schemes, founded
in visionary and impracticable ideas of reform, were
suddenly produced." --Pitt.
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Reformative
(gcide) | Reformative \Re*form"a*tive\ (r?*f?rm"?*t?v), a.
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form;
reformatory. --Good.
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Reformatory
(gcide) | Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\ (-t?*r?), a.
Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
[1913 Webster]Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. -ries (-r?z).
An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
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Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to
reformatories instead of to prisons. --Eng. Cyc.
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Re-formed
(gcide) | Re-form \Re-form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Re-formed (-f?rmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Re-forming.]
To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or
to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
[1913 Webster]Reformed \Re*formed"\ (r?*f?rmd"), a.
1. 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.
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The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed
faith. --Macaulay.
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2. Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or
drunkard.
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3. (Mil.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the
disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an
officer. [Eng.]
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Reformed
(gcide) | Re-form \Re-form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Re-formed (-f?rmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Re-forming.]
To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or
to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
[1913 Webster]Reformed \Re*formed"\ (r?*f?rmd"), a.
1. 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.
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The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed
faith. --Macaulay.
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2. Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or
drunkard.
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3. (Mil.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the
disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an
officer. [Eng.]
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Reformed Presbyterians
(gcide) | Presbyterian \Pres`by*te"ri*an\, n. [Cf. F. presbyt['e]rien.]
One who maintains the validity of ordination and government
by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.
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Reformed Presbyterians. See Cameronian.
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Reformer
(gcide) | Reformer \Re*form"er\ (r?*f?rm"?r), n.
1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors
for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of
abuses.
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2. (Eccl.Hist.) One of those who commenced the reformation of
religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon,
Zwingli, and Calvin.
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Re-forming
(gcide) | Re-form \Re-form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Re-formed (-f?rmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Re-forming.]
To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or
to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
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Reformist
(gcide) | Reformist \Re*form"ist\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]formiste.]
A reformer.
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Reformly
(gcide) | Reformly \Re*form"ly\, adv.
In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform. [Obs.]
--Milton.
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Unreformable
(gcide) | Unreformable \Unreformable\
See reformable. |
Unreformation
(gcide) | Unreformation \Un*ref`or*ma"tion\, n.
Want of reformation; state of being unreformed. [Obs.] --Bp.
Hall.
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Unreformed
(gcide) | Unreformed \Unreformed\
See reformed. |
endospore-forming bacteria
(wn) | endospore-forming bacteria
n 1: a group of true bacteria |
re-formation
(wn) | re-formation
n 1: forming again (especially with improvements or removal of
defects); renewing and reconstituting [syn: re-formation,
regeneration] |
re-formed
(wn) | re-formed
adj 1: formed again or anew; "the re-formed scout troop has been
very active" |
reform
(devil) | REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to
reformation.
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REFORM
(bouvier) | REFORM. To reorganize; to rearrange as, the jury "shall be reformed by
putting to and taking out of the persons so impanelled." Stat. 3 H. VIII. c.
12; Bac. Ab. Juries, A.
2. To reform an instrument in equity, is to make a decree that a deed
or other agreement shall be made or construed as it was originally intended
by the parties, when an error or mistake as to a fact has been committed. A
contract has been reformed, although the party applying to the court was in
the legal profession, and he himself drew the contract, it appearing clear
that it was framed so as to admit of a construction inconsistent with the
true agreement of the parties. 1 Sim. & Stu. 210; 3 Russ. R. 424. But a
contract will not be reformed in consequence of an error of law. 1 Russ. &
M. 418; 1 Chit. Pr. 124.
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REFORMATION
(bouvier) | REFORMATION, criminal law. The act of bringing back a criminal to such a
sense of justice, so that he may live in society without any detriment to
it.
2. The object of the criminal law ought to be to reform the criminal,
while it protects society by his punishment. One of the best attempts at
reformation is the plan of solitary confinement in a penitentiary. While the
convict has time to reflect he cannot be injured by evil example or corrupt
communication.
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