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Word Meanings - CLEARAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of reforming anything; clearance.

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  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • REFORMATIVE
    Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
  • ANYTHINGARIAN
    One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • CLEARANCE
    The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of
  • 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
  • ANYTHING
    1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
  • 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 preƫxistence of germs. Cf. EmboƮtement.
  • 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.

 

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