REFORM
Re*form", v. i.
Defn: 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.
REFORM
Re*form", n. Etym: [F. réforme.]
Defn: Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. 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.]
Syn.
— Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
Reformation.
RE-FORM Re-form" (r*frm"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Re-formed (-frmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Re-forming.]
Defn: 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.
REFORMABLE
Re*form"a*ble (r*frm"*b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being reformed. Foxe.
REFORMADE
Ref`or*made" (rf`r*md"), n.