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Reformatory   /rɪfˈɔrmətˌɔri/   Listen
Reformatory

noun
(pl. reformatories)
1.
Correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders.  Synonyms: reform school, training school.
adjective
1.
Tending to reform.  Synonym: reformative.  "Reformatory punishment"






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"Reformatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Rossini's native town Mascagni's days were full of trouble from the outset. He was opposed, said his friends, in reformatory efforts by some of the professors and pupils, whose enmity grew so virulent that in 1897 they spread the story that he had killed himself. He was deposed from his position by the administration, ...
— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... than half a cent a drink, and therefore does not discourage intemperance. Temperance men would think this was an argument for increasing the tax. The best temperance measure would be to send every drunkard to a reformatory prison. ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 - Volume 1, Number 10 • Various

... was formerly a part of the same parish as the above. Near by, at Chapmore End, is the Hertford County Reformatory for boys. ...
— Hertfordshire • Herbert W Tompkins

... commit the crime or not." This remains the foundation of the classic school of criminology. This explains why it could travel on its way more rapidly than the positive school of criminology. And yet, it took half a century from the time of Beccaria, before the penal codes showed signs of the reformatory influence of the classic school of criminology. So that it has also taken quite a long time to establish it so well that it became accepted by general consent, as it is today. The positive school of criminology was born in 1878, and although ...
— The Positive School of Criminology - Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 • Enrico Ferri

... substitute, but there is always a chance of its proving adequate. When tried, the best form is a solution similar to Magendie's, but replacing one grain of morphia by six of codeia.] We may therefore find it necessary to carry on our reformatory process upan laudanum or M'Munn's Elixir, but by far the larger number of cases will do better by being put instantly upon a regimen of Magendie's Solution of Morphia. The formula for ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day


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