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Reformatory
n.
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An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
Reformed
a.
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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.
Reformed
a.
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Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
Reformed
a.
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Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.
Reformer
n.
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One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
Reformer
n.
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One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
Reformist
n.
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A reformer.
Reformly
adv.
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In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform.
Refortification
n.
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A fortifying anew, or a second time.
Refortify
v. t.
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To fortify anew.
Refossion
n.
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The act of digging up again.
Refound
v. t.
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To found or cast anew.
Refound
v. t.
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To found or establish again; to re/stablish.
Refound
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imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.
Refounder
n.
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One who refounds.
Refracted
imp. & p. p.
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of Refract
Refracting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Refract
Refract
n.
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To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
Refract
n.
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To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.
Refractable
a.
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Capable of being refracted.
Refracted
a.
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Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.
Refracted
a.
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Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
Refracting
a.
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Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.
Refraction
n.
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The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
Refraction
n.
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The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
Refraction
n.
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The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction.
Refraction
n.
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The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.
Refractive
a.
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Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.
Refractiveness
n.
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The quality or condition of being refractive.
Refractometer
n.
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A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.