Crossword clues for reformed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reformed \Re*formed"\ (r?*f?rmd"), 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.
The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith.
--Macaulay. Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
(Mil.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
1 Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation, or, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from (w: Martin Luther) on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. 2 Amended in character and life. 3 (context UK military of an officer English) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop. v
(en-past of: reform)
Usage examples of "reformed".
Now, since the Lord wills that a man be reformed and regenerated in order that eternal life or the life of heaven may be his, and none can be reformed or regenerated unless good is appropriated to his will and truth to his understanding as if they were his, and only that can be appropriated which is done in freedom of the will and in accord with the reason of the understanding, no one is reformed in states of no freedom or rationality.
When it does, the internal of thought is closed and thereupon man can no longer act in freedom in accord with his reason, nor be reformed.
He encouraged the arts, reformed the laws, asserted military discipline, and visited all his provinces in person.
No matter how red the Neon lights glow on Main Street, they cannot rival the horrid hellfire in the chapel of the Antinomians, or the True New Reformed Tabernacle of the Penitent Saints of the Assembly of God, or in most of the brick and gray stone Baptist and Methodist churches that resemble railroad depots of 1890, and he that knows not that encouraging fact has never been west or south of Blawenburg.
For where the cause of hostilitie is all one, the like effect and issue is to be looked for at the hands of a cruell and raging enemie of the trueth: for in a maner, all the inhabitants of the Hanse Townes are very good fauourers of the reformed Religion, and mortall enemies to the Romish errors.
For reformation is effected in full, that is, in what is inmost and outmost, and what is outmost is reformed suitably to what is inmost only while man is in the world.
Although Pannach died, Kuno is well, and he is now fronting the reformed Klaus Renft Combo.
He was about to tell this chaplain that the liturgy of traditional Anglicanism was superior to that of reformed Papistry when the chaplain turned his face towards the entrance with mouth open in joy.
James was poisoned at a supper in Ely House in 1546, and Thomas the Black Earl, his son and heir, was brought up at the English court, professing the reformed religion.
She resorbed the handgrips and reformed the cube, tucked the excavator into its case and clicked the lid home.
In other words the fundamental reality of the divine religions must be renewed, reformed, revoiced to mankind.
But the repulsive technicalities of Germany were not equally prevalent in Holland, and scholasticism refused to affiliate with the Reformed much longer than with the Lutheran church.
Then the shouting line reformed and his ax wielding Picts and armored Silures with heavy weapons met them.
Suydam was a lettered recluse of ancient Dutch family, possessed originally of barely independent means, and inhabiting the spacious but ill-preserved mansion which his grandfather had built in Flatbush when that village was little more than a pleasant group of colonial cottages surrounding the steepled and ivy-clad Reformed Church with its iron-railed yard of Netherlandish gravestones.
I regret should any large proportion of those members who have been sent to Parliament to represent them in this House, prove to be the men to bring lasting dishonour upon themselves, their constituencies, and this House, by an act of tergiversation so gross as to be altogether unprecedented in the annals of any reformed or unreformed House of Commons.