Definition of Refrm
Reform, the name given in England to successive attempts and
measures towards the due extension of the franchise in the election of
the members of the House of Commons.
- Wikipedia
Re*form" (r?*f?rm"), v. t. [F.
réformer, L. reformare; pref. re- re- +
formare to form, from forma form. See Form.]
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 alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an
age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
Swift.
Syn. -- To amend; correct; emend; rectify; mend; repair;
better; improve; restore; reclaim.
Re*form", v. i. 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.
Re*form", n. [F. réforme.]
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to
reformation.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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