Word Meanings - REFORMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 of manners, or of abuses.

Related words: (words related to REFORMER)

• LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
  The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• ZWINGLIAN
  Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli , the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• CALVINISTIC; CALVINISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to Calvin, or Calvinism; following Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism. "Calvinistic training." Lowell.
• RELIGION
  A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined
• RELIGIONISM
  1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
• COMMENCE
  1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. Goldsmith. 2. To begin to be, or to act as. We commence judges ourselves. Coleridge. 3. To take
• CENTURY
  1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although
• LABORSOME
  Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor. (more info) 1. Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence. Shak.
• REFORMATORY
  An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.
• 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
• SIXTEENTH
  1. Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth. 2. Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided. Sixteenth note , the sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver.
• COMMENCEMENT
  1. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history." 2. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges
• RELIGIONIZE
  To bring under the influence of religion. Mallock.
• CALVINISM
  The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches. Note: The distinguishing doctrines of this system, usually termed the five points
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• CORRELIGIONIST
  A co-religion
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
• INTURGESCENCE
  A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled. Sir T. Browne.
• TURGESCENT
  Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.
• BURGESS
  town, F. bourg village, fr. LL. burgus fort, city; from the German; 1. An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone. Note: "A burgess of a borough corresponds
• TURGESCENCE; TURGESCENCY
  1. The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent. Sir T. Browne. 2. Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity. Johnson.