reformatory Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
    training school; reform school.
  2. adjective satellite tending to reform
    reformative.
    • reformative and rehabilitative agencies
    • reformatory punishment

WordNet

Re*form"a*to*ry adjective
Definitions
  1. Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
Re*form"a*to*ry noun
Wordforms
plural -ries
Definitions
  1. An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
    Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.

Webster 1913