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A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.

The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.

r; 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.

Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.

Tending to produce reformation; reformative.

The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --(a) (Biol.)

Having power, or a tendency, to transform.

Want of reformation; state of being unreformed. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells.

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

ue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

Obtainable; to be got at. The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay.

e process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak.

to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [Archaic] I will advertise thee what this people shall do. Num. xxiv. 14.

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.

To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk. To advise one's self, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.] Bid thy master well advise himself. Shak.

Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

Intelligence; information. [Obs.] Bacon.