a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of the nature of a formula.
Formulaic equation, an identical equation.
1882. Cassell, Formulaic equations.
1892. Agnes M. Clerke, Fam. Stud. Homer, i. 28. Formulaic and other expressions common to both are unmistakably ‘in place,’ as geologists say, in the Iliad, ‘erratic,’ or ‘transported,’ in the Odyssey.
