a. nonce-wd. [f. FORM v. after the analogy of REFORMATORY a.] Tending to form.
1868. Ruskin, Arrows of Chace (1881), II. 199. Labour considered as a discipline has hitherto been thought of only for criminals; but the real and noblest function of labour is to prevent crime, and not to be Reformatory but Formatory.
