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, 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 will not reform it. Swift.

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.

cellence; 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…

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.

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.

Incapable of being reformed; incorrigible. Joseph Cook.

To reform wrongly or imperfectly.

To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.

An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.

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

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

From which; from which or what place. Tennyson.