Word Meanings - MISREFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reform wrongly or imperfectly.

Related words: (words related to MISREFORM)

• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• REFORMATORY
  Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
• REFORMIST
  A reformer.
• REFORMABLE
  Capable of being reformed. Foxe.
• REFORMLY
  In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform. Milton.
• REFORMED
  Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer. (more info) 1. Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches
• REFORMADO
  1. A monk of a reformed order. Weever. 2. An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay.
• REFORMER
  One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin. (more info) 1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer
• REFORMADE
  A reformado.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• REFORM
  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
• REFORMATION
  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
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
• PREFORMATION
  An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.
• WHEREFORM
  From which; from which or what place. Tennyson.
• CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
  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.
• IRREFORMABLE
  Incapable of being reformed; incorrigible. Joseph Cook.
• MISREFORM
  To reform wrongly or imperfectly.