Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REF'LU-ENCE, or REF'LU-EN-CY, n. [from refluent.]

A flowing back. Mountague.

REF'LU-ENT, a. [L. refluens; re and fluo.]

1. Flowing back; ebbing; as, the refluent tide.
2. 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.

RE-FO-CIL-LA'TION, n.

The act of refreshing or giving new vigor; restoration of strength by refreshment. [Little used.] Middleton.

RE-FO-MENT', v.t. [re and foment.]

1. To foment anew; to warm or cherish again. Cotgrave.
2. 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.]

1. 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.
2. 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.

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.

REF'ORM-A-TION, n.

1. 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.
2. 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-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.

1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; as, a reformer of manners or of abuses.
2. One of those who commenced the reformation of religion from popish corruption; as, Luther, Melanchthon, Zuinglius and Calvin.

RE'FORM-ING, ppr.

Forming anew.

RE-FORM'ING, ppr.

Correcting what is wrong; amending; restoring to a good state.

RE-FORM'IST, n.

1. One who is of the reformed religion. Howell.
2. One who proposes or favors a political reform.

RE-FOR-TI-FI-CA'TION, n.

A fortifying a second time. Mitford.

RE-FOR'TI-FI-ED, pp.

Fortified anew.