reformado
(rɛfɔːˈmeɪdəʊ)
[a. Sp. reformado (= Pg. reformado, It. riformato, F. réformé): ad. L. reformātus, pa. pple. of reformāre to reform.]
1. Mil. a. An officer left without a command (owing to the ‘reforming’ or disbanding of his company) but retaining his rank and seniority, and receiving full or half pay; a ‘reformed’ officer. b. A volunteer serving in the army (or navy) without a commission, but with the rank of an officer. Now only Hist.
| 1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iii. v, Into the likenesse of some of these Reformado's had he moulded himselfe so perfectly. 1640 in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 68 That the Earl of Crauford's Troop, and those other Officers in the Army that go under the name of Reformadoes, are an unnecessary Charge. 1647 Sprigge Anglia Rediv. iii. ii. (1854) 143 The castle was manned with 700 men, divers of them reformadoes. 1660 Pepys Diary 1 Oct., Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado of the Charleses, came to see me. 1724 De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 85 There was about thirty officers, who, having no soldiers,..served as reformadoes with the regiment. 1755 Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 311 Moving his majesty that the loyal Scotch officers, formed into a company of reformadoes.., might be cashiered. 1814 Scott Wav. xliv, Jinker..had been reduced, with several others, by the advice of the Baron of Bradwardine, to the situation of what he called reformed officers, or reformadoes. 1891 Gardiner Hist. Civil War III. liii. 177 The Reformadoes were at last to be actually ejected from London. |
| transf. 1643 Trapp Comm. Gen. xiv. 16 Kings cared not for souldiers (no more did the King of Sodome for Abraham, and his Reformadoes). a 1679 T. Goodwin Christ the Mediator v. xviii. Wks. 1863 V. 331 The devil again put out of trade, and made a reformado. |
2. One who is (or has) reformed in some respect; also, one who favours reform; a reformer.
| a 1632 Weever (T.), This was one of Celestin the pope's caveats for his new reformadoes. 1642 View Print. Book int. Observat. 22, I promise him upon that to turn Reformado. 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 502 Now see the Rocks our false Reformado splits on. a 1734 North Exam. ii. iv. §146 (1740) 310, I promise hereafter to be a Reformado, or no Writer at all. 1787 Gentl. Mag. LVII. ii. 1053/1 Never surely did any Turkish or Algerine reformado slash his subject of conversion with a spirit so zealous. 1823 Byron Juan x. xiii, Even shuffling Southey..Would scarcely join again the ‘reformadoes’, Whom he forsook to fill the laureate's sty. 1857 Blackw. Mag. LXXXI. 394 Have I not set fast brothers by the ears..And sometimes roused the reformado's zeal? |
3. a. attrib., as
reformado officer,
reformado saint,
reformado Scot,
reformado sect,
reformado soldier, etc.
| 1644 Ordinance 26 Mar. in Husband Coll. Pub. Ord. Ho. Parlt. (1646) 446 The condition of Reformadoe Officers. 1664 Butler Hud. ii. ii. 116, I grant You are a Reformado Saint. Ibid. 648 She..o'er her shoulder Chastiz'd the Reformado Soldier. a 1680 ― Rem. (1759) II. 128 Three Reformado Sects joined in one..will not serve to maintain one Pedant. 1724 De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 85 My reformado Scots having observed that the town port [etc.]. |
b. Used after a
n., as
captain reformado,
gentleman reformado,
knight reformado.
| 1609 B. Jonson Sil. Wom. v. ii, His Knights reformados are wound vp as high, and insolent, as euer they were. 1617 Moryson Itin. ii. 166 Wee tooke thirteene prisoners, among whom was a Captaine Reformado (as they terme them, for honour of antiquitie). 1691 Proc. agst. French in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 475 Himself leading his own guard of gentlemen reformadoes. |