[ad. L. formātūram, f. formāre to FORM.] The action of forming.
1659. Hammond, On Ps. cxxxiii. 3 Annot. 659. And so to say this dew of Hermon, or that first formature of rain, which was on the top of that but as a dew, should after fall in showers of rain on the adjacent countrey will be very intelligible.
1886. Churchman, LIV. 23 Oct., 489/3. What should dominate the West? Should it be infidelity, socialism, and anarchism; These infant communities were easily susceptible of formature by leading men.
