Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: REF'LU-ENCE, or REF'LU-EN-CY – RE-FOR'TI-FI-ED
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REF'LU-ENCE, or REF'LU-EN-CY, n. [from refluent.]
A flowing back. – Mountague.
REF'LU-ENT, a. [L. refluens; re and fluo.]
- Flowing back; ebbing; as, the refluent tide.
- Flowing back; returning, as a fluid; as, refluent blood. – Arbuthnot.
RE'FLUX, n. [Fr. from L. refluxus.]
A flowing back; the returning of a fluid; as, the flux and reflux of the tides; the flux and reflux of the Euripus. – Brown.
RE-FO'CIL-LATE, v.t. [It. refocillare; Sp. refocilar; L. refocillo; re and the root of focus.]
To refresh; to revive; to give new vigor to. [Little used.] – Aubrey.
The act of refreshing or giving new vigor; restoration of strength by refreshment. [Little used.] Middleton.
RE-FO-MENT', v.t. [re and foment.]
- To foment anew; to warm or cherish again. – Cotgrave.
- To excite anew.
RE-FO-MENT'ED, pp.
Fomented or incited anew.
RE-FO-MENT'ING, ppr.
Fomenting anew; exciting again.
RE-FORM', n.
Reformation; amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt or depraved; as, the reform of parliamentary elections; reform of government.
RE-FORM', v.i.
To abandon that which is evil or corrupt, and return to a good state; to be amended or corrected. A man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
RE-FORM', v.t.1 [Fr. reformer; L. reformo; re and formo, to form.]
- To change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; to restore to a former good state, or to bring from a bad to a good state; 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.
- To change from bad to good; to remove that which is bad or corrupt; as, to reform abuses; to reform the vices of the age.
RE'-FORM, v.t.2 [re and form; with the accent on the first syllable.]
To form again; to create or shape anew.
RE-FORM-A'DO, n.
A monk who adheres to the reformation of his order.
REF'ORM-A-TION, n.
- The act of reforming; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of any thing vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses. Satire lashes vice into reformation. – Dryden.
- By way of eminence, the change of religion from the corruptions of popery to its primitive purity, begun by Luther, A. D. 1517.
RE-FORM-A'TION, n.
The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the re-formation of a column of troops into a hollow square. – Mitford.
RE-FORM'A-TIVE, a.
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form. – Good.
RE-FORM'A-TO-RY, a.
Tending to produce reformation.
RE-FORM'ED, pp.1
Corrected; amended; restored to a good state; as, a reformed profligate; the reformed church. Reformed church, any church that has separated from the church of Rome, more especially a Calvinistic church.
RE'FORM-ED, pp.2
Formed anew.
RE-FORM'ER, n.
- One who effects a reformation or amendment; as, a reformer of manners or of abuses.
- One of those who commenced the reformation of religion from popish corruption; as, Luther, Melanchthon, Zuinglius and Calvin.
RE-FORM'ING, ppr.
Correcting what is wrong; amending; restoring to a good state.
RE'FORM-ING, ppr.
Forming anew.
RE-FORM'IST, n.
- One who is of the reformed religion. – Howell.
- One who proposes or favors a political reform.
A fortifying a second time. – Mitford.
RE-FOR'TI-FI-ED, pp.
Fortified anew.