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.

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'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.

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.

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

RE'FORM-ING, ppr.

Forming anew.

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.