Reform Meaning in Spanish

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1. (v. i.) To return to a good state; to amend or correct ones own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
2. (n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
3. (v. t.) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.

1. (a.) Capable of being reformed.

1. (n.) A reformado.

1. (v. t.) An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay.
2. (v. t.) A monk of a reformed order.

1. (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.

1. (n.) Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.
2. (n.) The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.

1. (a.) Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.

1. (a.) Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
2. (n.) An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.

1. (a.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.
2. (a.) Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
3. (a.) 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.