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reformatory, a. and n.|rɪˈfɔːmətərɪ|
[f. L. ppl. stem reformāt- + -ory.]
A. adj. Having a desire or tendency to reform (a person or thing); designed for reforming.
1589Nashe Pref. Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 14 The vpstart discipline of our reformatorie Churchmen. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xvii. 209 Much was done not long after according to this Reformatory Platform. 1791Bentham Panopt. ii. Postscr. 189 The business of reformatory instruction may be transferred to the Chapel. 1831Mackintosh Sp. Ho. Comm. 4 July, Wks. 1846 III. 535 Such objections..would exclude most important questions, and, certainly, all reformatory measures. 1851Mary Carpenter (title) Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders. 1884Manch. Exam. 21 Aug. 4/7 The object of the discipline..is not so much retributive as reformatory. 1932, etc. [see approved ppl. a. 5]. 1933J. Masefield Conway ii. 61 H.M.S. reformatory-ship Clarence was fired and burned by the boys on board her.
B. n. An institution to which juvenile incorrigibles or offenders against the law are sent with a view to their reformation. Also N. Amer., a reforming institution for women or for first offenders. Also attrib.
1834J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. VIII. 735 He proposes that those who are convicted of offences..should be no otherwise ill-treated than by being compelled to live as a community apart... If all who, in any manner violated the laws, were removed into such a place of reformation, the inhabitants of the reformatory would speedily outnumber the remainder of the community. 1837Edin. Rev. LXIV. 353 They recommend a general Reformatory for England and Wales. 1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 154/2 With the establishment of the Parkhurst Reformatory, in the Isle of Wight, the commencement of a systematic improvement..has been made. 1870N.Y. (State) Laws I. 320 The action of the commissioners..in locating said prison or industrial reformatory..at Elmira..is hereby approved. 1878Harper's Mag. Dec. 109/1 Our reformatories..do not check the first steps in wrong-doing. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 764/1 The average reformatory population [in the United States] is about 15,000. 1912M. Nicholson Hoosier Chron. iii. 53 They were going to cut down the Reformatory's appropriation last winter. 1950Times 20 Mar. 5/3 As the result of the laudable impulse for reformatory treatment, the expectation may have been fostered among criminals that they will find that the salutary discomforts of prison have been reformed away. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 2/2 [He] was sentenced to two years less a day definite and 18 months indeterminate in reformatory after admitting that he stole about $50,000 from Sunnybrook Hospital. 1975Washington Post 27 Feb. b1/7 Michael Craddock..thinks the reformatory is a danger, a ‘public nuisance’. 1977Ibid. 25 Feb. a2/1 About 200 inmates at the Ohio State Reformatory hurled trays and food and fought guards during a disturbance today in the institution dining room. |