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Definition of Reformed
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran. "Dutch Reformed theology"
2. Adjective. Caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one. "A reformed drunkard"
Definition of Reformed
1. 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.
Definition of Reformed
1. Verb. (past of reform) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reformed
1. reform [v] - See also: reform
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reformed
Literary usage of Reformed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The reformed Church in Pennsylvania, Lancaster, 1902; HR Fisher, History of
Publication Efforts in the reformed Church, Philadelphia, 1885; T. Appel, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In 1918 the reformed Church in America had one General Synod, ... reformed CHURCH
OF AMERICA, Board of Education of, a body organized in 1828 by the General ..."
3. The German Element in the United States by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"The German reformed Church in 1900 comprised two thirds of the communicants of
the whole denominational 1 Cf.Korner, Das deutsche Element, 1818-1848, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The reformed Church in the United States (German reformed). ... They were members
of the reformed Church in Germany and were men of sterling character and ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In 1910 the Dutch reformed Church numbered 728 ministers, 684 churches, ...
Through the emigration just referred to, the Christian reformed Church was also ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In 1910 the Dutch reformed Church numbered 728 ministers, 684 churches, ...
Through the emigration just referred to, the Christian reformed Church was also ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In 1910 the Dutch reformed Church numbered 728 ministers, 684 churches, ...
Through the emigration just referred to, the Christian reformed Church was also ..."
8. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"Notwithstanding, the reformed doctrine, as it was called in distinction ...
He at first claimed a church in Heidelberg for the reformed, and forbade the ..."
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