different between reformed vs informed

English

Verb

reformed

1. simple past tense and past participle of reform

Adjective

reformed (comparative more reformed, superlative most reformed)

1. Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation, or, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Martin Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point.
2. Amended in character and life.

   a reformed gambler or drunkard

3. (Britain, military, of an officer) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop.

Anagrams

• deformer

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?f??md/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?f??md/

Etymology 1

inform +? -ed

Verb

informed

1. simple past tense and past participle of inform

Adjective

informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)

1. Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.

2. Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 696:

     Another informed and sobering estimate is that by 1800 indigenous populations in the western hemisphere were a tenth of what they had been three centuries before.

Translations

Etymology 2

in- +? formed the first sense probably uses in- (“in”), the second sense uses in- (“prefix of negation”).

Adjective

informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)

1. (obsolete) Created, given form.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

     after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.

2. (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie

     But, mindfull still of your first countries sight
     , Doe still preserve your first informed grace,
     Whose shadow yet shynes in your beauteous face

3. (astronomy, obsolete) Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.

   the informed stars

Anagrams

• foremind, friendom