[f. prec: see -ATION.] The action of the vb. FORMULATE.
1876. T. Douse, Grimm’s Law, § 1. 1. While, on the one hand, Grimm’s Law has proved for the philologist a potent instrument of Scientific Inquiry, on the other hand the concise formulation of which it is susceptible, and the ease with which it may be applied on a small scale, have rendered it perhaps the most popular and widely known of all linguistic inductions.
1885. Clodd, Myths & Dr., I. iv. 67. A summary of facts which led, more or less directly, to the formulation of the solar theory.
