formularize

American  

[fawr-myuh-luh-rahyz] / ˈfɔr myə ləˌraɪz /

especially British, formularise

verb (used with object)

formularized, formularizing

1. formulate.

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formularize British  

/ ˈfɔːmjʊləˌraɪz /

verb

1. a less common word for formulate

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Other Word Forms

• formularization noun
• formularizer noun

Etymology

Origin of formularize

First recorded in 1850–55; formular(y) + -ize

Example Sentences

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

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

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