FOR, 
Every form is Reis in an iron — ied it is 
firmly locked by a number of pieces of wood, fome long 
and narrow, and ae in form che we ee 
There are two forms required for every fheet ; one ee 
each fide ; and each form confifts of more or fewer pages, 
according to the volume of the book. See Press, and 
RINTING. 
orm of Corpor acounlie ng to Avicenna, and the 
Scotifs, is that eich oda body in the Saas effe 
of lea That there i is fuch a thing, they prove thus: the 
which caunot be placed in the 
: for it is either fo 
ir of 
ema a inder fea of ether bole: 
later Sriciosies fet this afide as a chimera. 
» Mopo ET, in iaw. See Mop 
Forma Pa cris, ovin Forma Pauperis, 8 ole any 
perfon has a caufe or fuit, but is fo poor that he cannot dif- 
pend the ufual charges oe fuing at law, or ine equity 
n this cafe, upon his making oath that he is oo worth 
57. his debts being paid, and bringing his certificates from 
fome lawyer, that he has juft caufe of (nit, the judge ad- 
mits him to fue in forma pauperis ; aa is, finan paying 
but 't 
fees to the counfellor, rapes » or cle cuftom ha as 
its ae - at. 11 Hen. Vil. ae. 12. See 
OsTs an 
FORMA 
L, fometbing that regards the form; or that 
gives the manner, or for 
The formal caate imine itfel{ tothe material, produces 
the body or compound. 
The {choolmen alfo apply the word to any thing which 
i a pes of = m, la co ae or oe t leaft, 
ii onceptio e fre ar the Hie. 
ee talk of the aa object of i eae and of the 
formal reafon of any thing 5 formal unity, &c. 
Tor mAv Caufe is defied, by certain philofop hers, to be 
fomething implanted in one parcel o of matter, whereby it is 
a Si all other matter. 
For matter is fuppofed common to all bodies: confe- 
quent. ‘et they are eee aes from one another, 
does not — m their matter, but from the form which 
acne : hence, arte is produced by fuch caufe, 
is {aid to be eagek 
Forma Circle. See Circret. 
Format Notien. See Notion 
Format is alfo ufed in a moral fenfe, importing pofitive, 
exprels, si precife, 
ay, a formal, agreement, a formal text, formal 
an{wer, &e. fee EviDENCE 
FORMALIVER. Panerai is varioufly ufed in the 
{chools. 
Sometimes it is underftood of the fubje€t, when a pr 
dicate is therein on account o be orm: thus, white, 
formally taken, diffufes light; g. d. the form inherent in 
this fubject, viz. whitenefs, is the caufe why the fubje& 
difperfes the light. 
ForMALLY has alfo ge in sl de Ste ; a word being 
formally fuppofed, when taken for the thing it was 
tended to lignify: as, m j 
ORMALLY is alfo ufed in the fame fenfe with adequately 
and totally ; thus, a lesa ia formally, i. e, adequately 
taken, requires three propofition 
Formavty is alfo ufed for allen ip soe aar to objec- 
tively 5 ; thus, a thing is faid to be for ally fuch, when 
it is fuch in the pr oper notion of the nae {poke eno 
Formauuy, again, is ufed in {peaking of the manner 
F.OR 
where'n a thing is contained in another, in oppofition te 
virtually and eminently 
ORMALITY, the quality of a San or formula ; ; OF 
that hie conttitutes and denominates them fuch. 
‘Thus, animality and ey are formalities. Thte. 
Scotifts make great ae a omen in oppofition to the 
iets of the Thon 
The Scotitts hold, cies ae metaphyfical degrees in man 
are fo many formalities; really inGt from each other; as . 
an, living, animal, Kc. nd the fame they - of 
ioe attributes of Go e Thomitts, the trary, 
tend that they are really and eatanncally the 
ame 
IT1Es, in Matters of Law, are feauenie 
ufed for the focnulae iemlelces or the rules prefcribed 
or ju y proceedings. In contraéts of ftriét law, ee 
the formalities muit be itri@ly obferved; and omiffion of 
the le ity may ruin the whole convention. 
The term is alfo ufed fora certain order, or decorum to: 
be obferved. : 
FORMARTEN, in Geography, one of the four diftridts 
into which Aberdeenfhire i in Scotland was for armerly divided ;. 
t uchan, and Ga Pore 
marten exte 
than, and onthe weft is bounded by a ridge-of low hills: 
near Old Melirum, which feparate it from Gariock. It 
confilts partly of a ftony foil, interfe€ted with bogs, and. 
partly of an excellent clay, capable of a high dene of im- 
provement. 
OR TION, in Geology, isa term much in ufe w ith: 
the difciples of Werner, and other German geognottics, an 
fignifies ttrata or maffes of ftone, following each’o man: 
uninterrupted order or feries, and fuch as may have been 
formed bythe fame agent, and under a fucceffion of fimilar 
nde ela lace This term feems Jpeg! ufed fynonymouf- 
thea {trata, or depofitions matters but fometimes fig- 
hes ie particular oe aon or large mafles of 
ar kinds of m ie GEOoGNOSY. 
A'TION, i in Pilsen, &e. the aét of f forming 
fafhioni ngs or Serta) a thin 
Fo ow of Stones. SeeS 
Denman ie the Tails of Can. "ee Comets. 
_ FORMATU M Puncrum.. See Puncrum. 
~ FORME), or Formy, in Heraldry. A crofs formé, or 
ebay is a crofs narrower in the centre, and bead at the 
extremes : o called ep Leigh and Morgan, though moft 
ie authors call it pat 
RMED, or Ficurep Stones, among Naturalifls, are 
fuch bodies as, being o ee pure sett flint, or fpar, are 
found in the earth, fo formed, as t ey bear a ‘near re- 
ee i to the external figure of mufeles, cockles, oytfters,. 
r other fhells, or to plants, or animals. 
Authors have been greatly divided as to their origin: the 
rag opinions fee under the articles Fossit, SHELL 
Tonnes Bachelor. See Bacu 
Formep, in Heraldry, the fae as feat . 
FORMEDON, Secundum Doni, in L a 
writ which lies for him who has a’ shi to lands.or te en 
by virtue of an ile ane from the ftatute “ de donis” of 
‘This isin the nature of a 
writ of right, ae 18 ‘confined only to fuchas claim i in a 
pes 
