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- noun Plural form of
reformado .
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Examples
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_Don Juan_ respecting his use of the phrase "reformadoes," he remarks:
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Would scarcely join again the "reformadoes," [530]
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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If he objected to the drilling of reformadoes, it was again the work of parliament and not of the militia committee.
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To this letter a postscript was added the following day (22 June) to the effect that since writing the above they had heard that parliament had been again threatened by a mob of reformadoes.
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An attempt was made to bring pressure to bear on parliament by a mob of reformadoes or disbanded soldiers besetting the
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The bands of reformadoes which infested the city presented a greater difficulty.
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Berkhampstead, (770) to enlarge upon the danger that was likely to arise from continued attempts to raise forces in Wales, "besides underhand workings in your city," and from parliament being threatened by the presence of reformadoes.
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Bradwardine, to the situation of what he called reformed officers, or reformadoes), added to the liveliness, though by no means to the regularity, of the scene, by galloping their horses as fast forward as the press would permit, to join their proper station in the van.
Waverley 2004
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October, 1667, we find the cause of Sir George Hamilton's entering into the French service "Concerning the reformadoes of, the guards of horse, his majesty thought fit, the other day, to have them dismissed, according to his promise, made to the parliament at the last session.
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A week later (21 July) a mob of apprentices, reformadoes, watermen and other disaffected persons met at Skinners’ Hall, and one and all signed a
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