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.
2. An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains
his rank, and sometimes his pay. [Obs.]
Re*form"al*ize (r?*f?rm"al*?z), v. i. To affect reformation; to pretend
to correctness. [R.]
Ref`or*ma"tion (r?f`?r*m?"sh?n), n. [F. réformation, 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.
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.
Syn. -- Reform; amendment; correction; rectification. -- 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.
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.
Re*form"a*tive (r?*f?rm"?*t?v), a. Forming again; having the quality of
renewing form; reformatory. Good.
Re*form"a*to*ry (-t?*r?), a. Tending to produce reformation;
reformative.
Re*form"a*to*ry, n.; pl. -ries (-r&?;z). An institution for promoting
the reformation of offenders.
Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of
to prisons.
Eng. Cyc.
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.
The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith.
Macaulay.