[f. next + -ATION.] The action of the vb. FORMULIZE.

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1851.  Ruskin, Stones Ven., III. ii. § 86. The curious tendency to formulization and system which, under the name of philosophy, encumbered the minds of the Renaissance schoolmen.

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1873.  A. P. Stanley, The Old Catholics and the Ultramontanes, in Contemporary Review, XXI. April, 774. Bluntschli, who there represented the Protestant Churches, laid down that ‘whereas in former ecclesiastical conflicts, every Church had laid claim to the possession of absolute truth, it must be the principle of the Church of the future that every formulization of truth is not absolute but relative.’

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