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† reformade Obs.
[ad. next: see -ade 3.]
= reformado 1.
c1645Tullie Siege of Carlisle (1840) 8 With him came some white coats, and about 200 of reformades. 1661Sir A. Haslerig's Last Will & Test. 3 Our baffled Reformades, and desperate Decoys of our late disbanded Army. 1696tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant xiv. 176 A sort of Officers that never go to War, almost like our Reformades. 1733Neal Hist. Purit. II. 525 David Hyde, one of the Reformades, first drew his sword in Palace yard.
attrib.c1645Tullie Siege of Carlisle (1840) 26 The partye, consisting of 42, all reformade officers. 1685Crowne Sir C. Nice i. 8 They..march in Publick with their Baggage,..and a whole train of Reformade sinners.
b. to ride reformades, to serve as volunteers.
1682Bunyan Holy War 104 There were also some from the Court that rode Reformades, for the love that they had to the King Shaddai.
So † reformader. Obs. (In quot. attrib.)
c1642in Glover's Hist. Derby (1829) i. App. 71 Two hundred and forty of the Lord Brooke's reformader troupe, which behaved themselves all very gallantly. |