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re-form, reform, v.2|riːˈfɔːm|
Also 4 refourme, 5 Sc. refurm.
[Orig. identical with prec., but in later use a new formation from re- 5 a and form v. Cf. F. reformer.]
trans. and intr. To form a second time, form over again.
trans.a1340Hampole Psalter iv. 7 Þe light of his grace þat refourmes in vs his ymage. 1390Gower Conf. I. 273 And riht so in the same forme In fleissh and blod he schal reforme..the qwike and dede. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ii. vi. 484 Til wyttyr þaim for hir pete How mankynde mycht refurmyt be. 1594Kyd Cornelia ii. 360 The formes of things doe neuer die, Because the matter that remaines Reformes another thing thereby. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 181/1 When the Soul by cogitation reforming these things, which are conceived in Opinion by Memory and Sense [etc.]. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth ii. (1723) 105 Its prime Errand was to Re-form and New-mold the Earth. 1798Landor Gebir iv. 128 She had words to speak, She form'd them and reform'd them. 1821Byron Juan iii. lix, Our little selves re-form'd in finer clay. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 924 The formation goes on continuously, so that..a fresh deposit..is re-formed in about twenty years.
intr.1899J. Cagney tr. Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. v. (ed. 4) 158 This precipitate re-formed on the further addition of the dye.
b. Mil. (See form v. 8.)
trans.1802James Milit. Dict. s.v., When a line of several battalions hath passed another..it may be reformed in the following manner. 1835Lytton Rienzi ii. iii, Order was again restored, and the line reformed. 1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 13 Unfix Swords. Re-form Company.
intr.1847Infantry Man. (1854) 97 No advanced guard.., after carrying a post, should..be permitted to advance without reforming. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xx. 311 At that well known..voice, the flying troops immediately re-formed. |