Word Meanings - REFORMLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform. Milton.
Related words: (words related to REFORMLY)
- 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.