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formularize

American  
[fawr-myuh-luh-rahyz] / ˈfɔr mjə ləˌraɪz /
especially British, formularise

verb (used with object)

formularized, formularizing
  1. formulate.


formularize British  
/ ˈfɔːmjʊləˌraɪz /

verb

  1. a less common word for formulate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of formularize

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

Example Sentences

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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

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

What would otherwise be just another formularized western comedy is saved by John Wayne's best performance in a decade.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

More frequently it is a formularized gambit of a sort that has been used for generations.

From Time Magazine Archive

It also brought into the milkshed a formularized way of figuring milk prices: the "blended price."

From Time Magazine Archive

"I've been trying to build up a concept of the framework wherein psi seems to function," I told him casually, just as if it were all a formularized laboratory procedure.

From Sense from Thought Divide by Dongen, H. R. van

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