reformare

Tertullian (ca. 155-220), for example, used the word reformare to designate a return to a previous condition, applying the term also to the general repe - titiousness of the universe.

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968

The terms reformare and reformatio had already occurred in classical literature and were known in that context to medieval students of the classics and to Renaissance humanists.

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968

In classical usage the verb reformare and the noun reformatio, which appeared a little later in the litera - ture, did not initially suggest the active and willful reestablishing of a former state of things or the creation of a new value related to the old.

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968

Latin used in the West rendered the Greek μεταμορφου̂σΘαι as reformare or reformari.

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968

He was possibly the first to use the phrase in melius reformare, to reform for the better.

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968

In Ovid's Metamor - phoses (an adaptation of the Greek μεταμόρφωσις) reformare refers to a miraculous physical restoration and to a sudden rejuvenation of an old man for one day.

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968

Tertullian: Perinde potuit abolefactam eam violentia cataclysmi in spiritu rursus reformare, quemadmodum et Hierosolymis Babylonia expugnatione deletis, omne instrumentum Judaicae literaturae per Esdram constat restauratum.

Pens��es 1623-1662 1944

Dominus velit in toto mundo fedem sanctæ Ecclesiæ reformare_.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

Barroso respinge ideile indraznete de reformare financiara europeana

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Barroso respinge ideile indraznete de reformare financiara europeana

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