(verb) : rĕ-formo, āvi, ātum, 1
* To shape again, remould, transform, metamorphose, change (not ante-Aug.).
* Lit.: sed preme, quicquid erit, dum, quod fuit ante, reformet,i.e. until she resumes her first shape,Ov. M. 11, 254; cf. id. ib. 9, 399: rursus in facies hominum tales figuras,App. M. 3, p. 139, 26: aliquem in alienam personam,id. ib. 11fin.: hunc (asinum) ad homines,id. ib. 11, p. 264, 24: corpus humilitatis nostrae,Vulg. Phil. 3, 21: claudorum pedes ad officium gradiendi,Lact. 4, 26, 1.
* Trop.
* To change, alter: divinae providentiae fatalis dispositio subverti vel reformari non potest,App. M. 9, p. 217, 27: sententias in pejus,Dig. 49, 1, 1: cum Themistocles ruinas patriae in pristinum habitum reformaret,Val. Max. 6, 5, 2ext.
* Pregn., to amend, reform; of persons: (quadragenarius pupillus) non potest reformari,Sen. Ep. 25, 1: sed reformamini in novitate sensūs vestri,Vulg. Rom. 12, 2.— Of things: imitari proposita et ad illa reformare chirographum,Sen. Ep. 94, 51: mores depravatos,Plin. Pan. 53, 1; so, solutam et perditam disciplinam,Eum. Pan. Const. 2.
* To restore, re-establish: pacem,Eutr. 9, 20.

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