Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Reformatory"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\ (-t?*r?), a.
Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. {-ries} (-r?z).
An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to
reformatories instead of to prisons. --Eng. Cyc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
reformatory
adj : tending to reform; "reformative and rehabilitative
agencies"; "reformatory punishment" [syn: {reformative}]
n : correctional institution for the detention and discipline
and training of young or first offenders [syn: {reform
school}, {training school}]
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