subs. (old).—A disbanded soldier: a degraded officer. [In Sp. = an officer deprived of his command but retaining rank and pay: Fr. reformé.] As adj. = degraded.
1598. JONSON, Every Man in his Humour, iii. 2. Into the likeness of one of these REFORMADOS had he moulded himself.
1663. A. COWLEY, The Cutter of Coleman Street, i. 5. A Troop of REFORMADO Officers; most of them had been under my Command before!
1664. BUTLER, Hudibras, II. ii. 115. I grant you are a REFORMADO saint.
