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Gospeler :: Gospeler (n.) A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan..

Reaction :: Reaction (n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Reformed :: Reformed (a.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.

Wycliffite :: Wycliffite (n.) A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard..

Misreform :: Misreform (v. t.) To reform wrongly or imperfectly.

Thorough :: Thorough (a.) Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet..

Reformado :: Reformado (v. t.) A monk of a reformed order.

Covenant :: Covenant (n.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the Solemn League and Covenant..

Apostle :: Apostle (n.) The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance..

Reformado :: Reformado (v. t.) An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay..

Whereform :: Whereform (adv.) From which; from which or what place.

Chartism :: Chartism (n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter..

Reformed :: Reformed (a.) 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..

Classis :: Classis (n.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church..

Preform :: Preform (v. t.) To form beforehand, or for special ends..

Redress :: Redress (n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.

Turlupin :: Turlupin (n.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc..

Moderate :: Moderate (a.) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind..

Pot-walloper :: Pot-walloper (n.) A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months..

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