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Word Meanings - REFORMLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform. Milton.

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  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • REFORMATIVE
    Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
  • PURPOSELESS
    Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
  • PURPOSE
    1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • REFORMATORY
    An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • 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
  • PURPOSER
    1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
  • 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.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • 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
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • PURPOSELY
    With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • REFORMADE
    A reformado.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • PREFORMATIVE
    A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
  • CROSS-PURPOSE
    A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
  • DISPURPOSE
    To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
  • PREFORMATION
    An old theory of the preƫxistence of germs. Cf. EmboƮtement.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • WHEREFORM
    From which; from which or what place. Tennyson.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.

 

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