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Tending to produce reformation; reformative.

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  1. a. Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
  2. n. An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
  3. adj. tending to reform
  4. n. correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
  5. Tending to produce reformation; reformative. An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.
  6. j:100 n. correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders