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Reflux
(Re"flux`) a. Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.
Reflux
(Re"flux`), n. [F. reflux. See Refluent, Flux.] A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as,
the flux and reflux of the tides.
All from me
Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound.
Milton. Refocillate
(Re*foc"il*late) v. t. [L. refocillatus, p. p. of refocillare; pref. re- re- + focillare to revive by
warmth.] To refresh; to revive. [Obs.] Aubrey.
Refocillation
(Re*foc`il*la"tion) n. Restoration of strength by refreshment. [Obs.] Middleton.
Refold
(Re*fold") v. t. To fold again.
Refoment
(Re`fo*ment") v. t. To foment anew.
Reforestization
(Re*for`est*i*za`tion) n. The act or process of reforestizing.
Reforestize
(Re*for"est*ize) v. t. To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
Reforge
(Re*forge") v. t. [Pref. re- + forge: cf. F. reforger.] To forge again or anew; hence, to fashion
or fabricate anew; to make over. Udall.
Reforger
(Re*for"ger) n. One who reforges.
Reform
(Re*form") v. t. [F. réformer, L. reformare; pref. re- re- + formare to form, from forma form.
See Form.] 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.
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
Swift. Syn. — To amend; correct; emend; rectify; mend; repair; better; improve; restore; reclaim.
Reform
(Re*form"), v. i. To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as,
a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
Reform
(Re*form"), n. [F. réforme.] Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as,
reform of elections; reform of government.
Civil service reform. See under Civil. — Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed
in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament. — Reform
school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation
of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
Syn. — Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See Reformation.
Re-form
(Re-form") v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Re-formed (-f?rmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Re-forming.] To
give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re- form the line after
a charge.
Reformable
(Re*form"a*ble) a. Capable of being reformed. Foxe.
Reformade
(Ref`or*made") n. A reformado. [Obs.]
Reformado
(Ref`or*ma"do) n. [Sp., fr. reformar, L. reformare. SEe Reform, v. t.]
