v. [f. FORMULAR a. + -IZE.] trans. To express in a formula or formal statement; to formulate.
1852. Fraser’s Mag., XLV. Jan., 90/1. Every process is formularized in the most scientific language; every branch and section of the subject, from the ‘puff referential’ to the puff collusive and puff direct, examined in detail, minutely dissected, and clearly identified.
1862. Goulburn, The Education of the World, in Replies to Ess. & Rev., 37. These [Church doctrines] were evolved, as principles usually are, partly by reflection on past experience, and by formularizing the thoughts embodied in the record of the Church of the Apostles, partly by perpetual collision with every variety of opinion.
1876. Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 247. The comparative merits of tannic and gallic acids may be formularized as follows: for local effects tannic acid, for systemic effects gallic acid is to be preferred.
Hence Formularizing vbl. sb.
1891. Athenæum, 15 Aug., 222/3. A clumsy formularizing in general of Talleyrand’s sharpest and most famous mot.
