v. [f. FORMULA + -ATE1. Cf. F. formuler.] trans. To reduce to a formula; to express in (or as in) a formula; to set forth in a definite and systematic statement.
1860. Earl Carnarvon, Recoll. Druses Lebanon, v. 50. The Druse doctrines were called into being and rapidly formulated into a system that appealed to the spirit of nationality as much as of religion.
1862. H. Spencer, First Princ., I. iv. § 26 (1875), 88. Besides that definite consciousness of which Logic formulates the laws, there is also an indefinite consciousness which cannot be formulated.
1880. Kinglake, Crimea, VI. ix. 225. Lord Raglan did not consciously formulate for himself any settled design.
1883. Quarterly Review, CLVI. 326–7. The Heads of Houses, (at that time the governing body of the University,) proposed a sentence of condemnation; and entrusted the Provost of Oriel with the responsibility of formulating the document.
Hence Formulated, Formulating ppl. adjs.
1860. Marsh, Eng. Lang., 235. Fiery words are the hot blast that inflames the fuel of our passionate nature, and formulated doctrine a hedge that confines the discursive wandering of the thoughts.
1876. C. M. Davies, Unorth. Lond., 99. If the Spiritists may be correctly described as Swedenborgian Dissenters, the New Church, in its turn, is but an established, formulated, orthodox spiritism.
1895. Athenæum, 24 Aug., 253/1. He puts forward no exaggerated claim for his hero’s [Laud’s] political activity, nor, again, for the formulating effects of his churchmanship.
