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Webster 1913 Edition
Reformatory
Re-form′a-to-ry
(-t?-r?)
, Adj.
Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
Re-form′a-to-ry
,Noun.
pl.
-ries
(-r[GREEK]z)
. An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to
reformatories
instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.