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An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.

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Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.

Yet despite the efforts of the government the Reformation made progress in the land.

The Reformation was introduced here in 1533, but it was not accepted by all the inhabitants.

That reformation failed to effect its purifying mission.

From that time until the Reformation the Christian sacrifice was all but universally regarded as the offering of the body and blood of Christ.

The last and most characteristic festival of Canaanite life was that of Asiph or " ingathering " which after the Deuteronomic reformation (621 B.C.) had made a single sanctuary and therefore a considerable journey with a longer stay necessary, came to be called Succoth or booths.

In the Church of England since the Reformation matins is used for the order of public morning prayer.

The Reformation, too, brought its troubles.

In 1875 a number of Russian Mennonites (descendants of the Anabaptists of the Reformation) came to the r.

The Lenten fast was retained at the Reformation in some of the reformed Churches, and is still observed in the Anglican and Lutheran communions.

With the Reformation in the 16th century, Church courts properly speaking disappeared from the non-episcopal religious communities which were established in g Holland, in the Protestant states of Switzerland and of Germany, and in the then non-episcopal countries of Denmark and Norway.

The festival was, in fact, too popular to succumb to these efforts, and it survived throughout Europe till the Reformation, and even later in France; for in 1645 Mathurin de Neure complains in a letter to Pierre Gassendi of the monstrous fooleries which yearly on Innocents' Day took place in the monastery of the Cordeliers at Antibes.

At the Reformation two tendencies became apparent.

The subject of ecclesiastical vestments has been, ever since the Reformation, hotly debated in the Church of England.

But his dilemma on this point led him into further doubts, and he was eventually induced to revile his whole career and the Reformation.

Still more famous was Albert, count of Mansfeld (1480-1560), an intimate friend of Luther and one of the earliest and staunchest supporters of the Reformation.

The Reformation made no break in the continuity of the school, which had probably existed in the abbey since the 11th century.

It has been customary for Protestant writers to represent the mystics of Germany and Holland as precursors of the Reformation.

Mysticism did not cease within the Catholic Church at the Reformation.

After the beginning of the German Reformation many Utraquists adopted to a large extent the doctrines of Luther and Calvin; and in 1567 obtained the repeal of the compacts, which no longer seemed sufficiently far-reaching.

From the end of the 16th century the inheritors of the Hussite tradition in Bohemia were included in the more general name of "Protestants" borne by the adherents of the Reformation.

The date would fall between Josiah's reformation (621) and his death (609).

After the close of the diet the papal nuncio went to the Netherlands, where he kindled the flames of persecution, two monks of Antwerp, the first martyrs of the Reformation, being burnt in Brussels at his instigation.

There is reason to think that, notwithstanding the order for the use of incense at every celebration, it was in practice burnt only on high festivals, and then only in rich churches, down to the period of the Reformation.

It was decided in the affirmative previous to his return; but he approved with astonishing eloquence, and thereafter was ever in the front rank in maintaining intercommunication between all churches holding the main doctrines of the Reformation.

It was a time of moral reformation, when men were awaking to the need of better and purer living.

It continued in use till the Gregorian reformation.

It was the capital of the kingdom until 1443, and the residence of the bishops of Zealand until the Reformation.

It was founded in 1150 by David I., and remained in the hands of the Cistercians till its suppression at the Reformation.

Jealousy of everything emanating from Rome still keeps the Eastern churches from correcting the calendar according to the Gregorian reformation, and thus their Easter usually falls before, or after, that of the Western churches, and only very rarely, as was the case in 1865, do the two coincide.

In the Church of England the use of the mitre was discontinued at the Reformation.

In those countries where the Reformation triumphed, this triumph represented the victory of the civil over the clerical powers in the long contest.

At the Reformation the buildings (except the church, now a ruin) passed into the possession of Lord Lovat.

The Benedictine abbey, founded in 1095, was used after the Reformation as a school, and is now an Evangelical theological seminary.

The materials thus obtained formed the basis of his historical and biographical works, which relate chiefly to the period of the Reformation.

Like Augustus, he attempted a reformation of morals and religion.

By his personal conduct he had set an ideal example for Anglican priests, and it was not his fault that national authority failed to crush the individualistic tendencies of the Protestant Reformation.

In October 1530 he broke into the church of Neuchatel with an iconoclastic mob, thus planting the Reformation in that city.

This was the signal for public disputations in which Farel took the leading part on the Reformation side, with the result that by decree of the 27th of August 1535 the mass was suppressed and the reformed religion established.

Calvin, on his way to Basel for a life of study, touched at Geneva, and by the importunity of Farel was there detained to become the leader of the Genevan Reformation.

When (1541) Calvin was recalled to Geneva, Farel also returned; but in 1542 he went to Metz to support the Reformation there.

His Parable of the Wicked Mammon (1528), Obedience of a Christen Man (1528), in which the two great principles of the English Reformation are set out, viz.

Before it was completed he had already begun the researches on which was based the second of his masterpieces, his Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation (Berlin, 1839-47), a necessary pendant to his book on the popes, and the most popular of his works in his own country.

In this work Harnack traces the rise of dogma, by which he understands the authoritative doctrinal system of the 4th century and its development down to the Reformation.

In the same way the Crusades themselves may be regarded as a stage in the clerical reformation of the fighting laymen.

Nothing marks the secular attitude of the Italians at an epoch which decided the future course of both Renaissance and Reformation more strongly than the mundane proclivities of this apostolic secretary, heart and soul devoted to the resuscitation of classical studies amid conflicts of popes and antipopes, cardinals and councils, in all of which he bore an official part.

It later became one of the chief centres of the Reformation movement in Switzerland, so that the bishop retired in 1525 to Porrentruy, where he resided till 1792, finally settling at Soleure in 1828, the bishopric having been wholly reorganized since 1814.

In 741 Pope Zacharias made him legate, and charged him with the reformation of the whole Frankish church.

In 1532 it accepted the doctrines of the Reformation.

The university of Paris had reached its zenith at the time of the council of Constance (1418), and was now losing its intellectual leadership under the attacks of the Renaissance and the Reformation.

This was the problem that faced Ignatius, and in his endeavour to effect a needed reformation in the individual and in society his work and the success that crowned it place him among the moral heroes of humanity.