reformer
reformer
subs.
(Politically): use P. ὁ νεωτερίζων.
subs.
(Politically): use P. ὁ νεωτερίζων.
REFORMER
Generally emendator: corrector et emendator alicujus rei: veteris alicujus consuetudinis mutator. A radical reformer rerum evertendarum cupidus or *qui ita est mutandarum or novarum rerum cupidus ut omnia quae nunc sunt a radicibus velit evertere (in a bad sense) or qui vult non solum ramos miseriarum nostrarum amputare sed omnes radicum fibras evellere (in a good sense; after Cic. Tusc. 3 6 13):
Ecclesiastical reformer *disciplinae Christianae corrector et emendator: *melioris formulae auctor (in ecclesiastical matters); *sacrorum instauratorum emendatorum auctor: ☞ reformator is not Latin.
Generally emendator: corrector et emendator alicujus rei: veteris alicujus consuetudinis mutator. A radical reformer rerum evertendarum cupidus or *qui ita est mutandarum or novarum rerum cupidus ut omnia quae nunc sunt a radicibus velit evertere (in a bad sense) or qui vult non solum ramos miseriarum nostrarum amputare sed omnes radicum fibras evellere (in a good sense; after Cic. Tusc. 3 6 13):
Ecclesiastical reformer *disciplinae Christianae corrector et emendator: *melioris formulae auctor (in ecclesiastical matters); *sacrorum instauratorum emendatorum auctor: ☞ reformator is not Latin.
reformer:
1. corrector (used in a gen. sense): experience, which is the only r. of the laws, usus, qui est unus legum c., Liv. 45, 32: the r. Bestius, c. Bestius, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 37. Join: emendator ac c., Cic. Phil. 2, 17, 43: c. atque emendator, id. Balb. 8, 20.
2. ēmendātor: f. -trix, Cic. Leg. 1, 22, 58: a r. of the vernacular idiom, e. sermonis usitati, id. Brut. 74, 259.
3. rĕformātor (very rare): f. -trix, Dig.: a restorer and r. of literature, literarum reductor ac r., Plin. Ep. 8, 12, ad init.: used of the Protestant Reformers, Milton. This latter sense may be also expr. by a phr., *melioris formulae auctor (Kr.); sacrorum emendatorum auctor (Kr.). Phr.: a radical r., perh. *legum quam severissime emendandarum studiosus.
1. corrector (used in a gen. sense): experience, which is the only r. of the laws, usus, qui est unus legum c., Liv. 45, 32: the r. Bestius, c. Bestius, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 37. Join: emendator ac c., Cic. Phil. 2, 17, 43: c. atque emendator, id. Balb. 8, 20.
2. ēmendātor: f. -trix, Cic. Leg. 1, 22, 58: a r. of the vernacular idiom, e. sermonis usitati, id. Brut. 74, 259.
3. rĕformātor (very rare): f. -trix, Dig.: a restorer and r. of literature, literarum reductor ac r., Plin. Ep. 8, 12, ad init.: used of the Protestant Reformers, Milton. This latter sense may be also expr. by a phr., *melioris formulae auctor (Kr.); sacrorum emendatorum auctor (Kr.). Phr.: a radical r., perh. *legum quam severissime emendandarum studiosus.