formularize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of formularize
First recorded in 1850–55; formular(y) + -ize
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But though we cannot formularize reasons, we have instincts; and sometimes instinct sees more clearly than reason.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert
Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith."
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William
It is not logic that makes men reasonable, nor the science of ethics that makes men good, but it is always useful to analyse, to formularize and to investigate.
From A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Wilde, Oscar
This price-propping concept, which has been built into farm legislation since 1933, is a formularized measure of the relationship between the prices of farm products and other goods.
From Time Magazine Archive
What would otherwise be just another formularized western comedy is saved by John Wayne's best performance in a decade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearly all of them are frank, formularized potboilers, a virtuoso's improvisations on minor themes.
From Time Magazine Archive
More frequently it is a formularized gambit of a sort that has been used for generations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the prescriptions were formularized to such an extent that most of them were stencilled and went by numbers.
From The Web of Life by Herrick, Robert
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