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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A monk who demands or favors the reform of his order.
  2. n. A military officer who, for some disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank and perhaps his pay; also, generally, an officer without a command.
  3. Penitent; reformed; devoted to reformation.
  4. Pertaining to or in the condition of a reformado; hence, inferior, degraded.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A monk of a reformed order.
  2. n. A disgraced officer who is deprived of command, but retains rank and sometimes pay.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

Etymologies

  1. Spanish, from reformar, Latin reformare. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Nada en la nación hondureña puede estar por encima de este artículo 280, constitucional, reformado el 19 de septiembre, 1998, por Decreto 245–98, y que dice”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » CRS on the Honduras “Coup”:

  • “Thou runnest on with thy cursed nonsensical reformado rote, of dying, dying, dying! and, having once got the word by the end, canst not help foisting it in at every period!”

    Clarissa Harlowe

  • “Mas será que a esquerda portuguesa não tem melhor para a representar do que um típico reformado ou pior, um poeta que eu francamente espero que seja melhor deputado do que poeta, a bem das nossas leis?”

    Asilo de São Bento

  • “I must speak freely to you: I am under bad circumstances, for besides my harlots in service, my reformado concubines lye heavy upon me.”

    Andrew Marvell

  • “So he took my challenge, which was accepted; we went out, Lord C---'s servant being seconded by a reformado footman from the Palace.”

    Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

  • “So he took my challenge, which was accepted; we went out, Lord C---'s servant being seconded by a reformado footman from the palace.”

    Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

  • “Louie reformado photography coverage services on wedding occasions,”

    WN.com - Financial News

  • “Chalet reformado de unos 105 m² - terreno de aprox. 400 m² - 2 dormitorios, cocina equipada, 1 baño, salón-comedor ámplio con chimenea, terraza, garaje, depósito grande de 25.000 l, a aprox. 2 km de la playa.”

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  • “So he took my challenge, which was accepted; we went out, Lord C-‘s servant being seconded by a reformado footman from the palace.”

    Lavengro

  • “‘I hen it fell under the dominion of a broken attorney, who was dethroned by a reformado captain, who, proving tyrannical, was deposed by a hedgeparson, who was succeeded, upon resignation of his power, by Duke Jacob Hildebrod, of that name the first, whom Heaven long preserve.””

    The Fortunes of Nigel

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