Word Meanings - REFORMED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches. The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith. Macaulay. 2. Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.

Related words: (words related to REFORMED)

• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• PURITY
  The condition of being pure. Specifically: freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday. Freedom from
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• TROOPBIRD
  Any troupial.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• RESTORE
  Restoration. Spenser.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• CLERESTORY
  See CLEARSTORY
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• UNSERVICE
  Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. Massinger.