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To foment anew.

To replant with trees; to reafforest; to reforestize.

The act or process of reforestizing.

To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.

To forge again or anew; hence, to fashion or fabricate anew; to make over. Udall.

One who reforges.

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. The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one wil…

Capable of being reformed. Foxe.

A reformado. [Obs.]

A monk of a reformed order. [Obs.] Weever.

To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. [R.]

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.

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

Tending to produce reformation; reformative.

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 po…

One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.

A reformer.

In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform. [Obs.] Milton.

A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford.

To fortify anew.