formular 
A speech on the stage, let it flatter ever so extravagant- 
ly, is formular. It lias always been formular to flatter 
kings and queens ; so much so, that even in our church- 
service, we have "our most religious king," used indis- 
criminately, whoever is king. Bagwell, Johnson, I. 152. 
Il.t n. A model ; an exemplar. 
He [Sidney] was the veryfurmnlar that all well-disposed 
gentlemen do form their manners and life by. 
Quoted in Motleys United Netherlands, I. 358. 
formularistic (f6r"mu-la-ris'tik), . [</onw- 
litr + -istic.] Pertaining to or exhibiting for- 
mularization. Emerson. 
formularization (f6r"mu-lar-i-za'shgn), n. [< 
formitlnriy + -atiou.] The act, process, or re- 
sult of formularizing or formulating. 
The great majority of those so-called enactments were 
> prohably nothing more than formularizatiom of custom- 
ary law, for the use of private judges in civil causes whom 
the king is said to have instituted. Encyc. Brit., XX. 677. 
F. A. Lunge, however, has attempted to show at some 
length that, after excluding modality, a special formu- 
larization in thought is always necessary when we would 
assign a general validity to any particular logical form. 
O. S. Hall, German Culture, p. 104. 
formularize (for'mu-lar-Iz), r. t. ; pret. and pp. 
formularized, ppr. formularizing. [< formular 
+ -ize.] To reduce to a formula; formulate; 
express in precise or systematic form. 
It is, therefore, to be regretted that the commissioners 
as a body have not formttlarized an opinion on a subject 
that was within their jurisdiction, and which was exam- 
ined by them at great length and with evident care. 
Saturday Kev., Feb. 10, 1866. 
formulary (for'mu-la-ri), a. and n. [= F. for- 
mulaire = Sp. Pg.'lt.' formulario, n. (< ML. as if 
"formulariuni, neut.); cf. L. formularius, as a 
noun, a lawyer skilled in composing writs or 
forms ; prop, adj., < formula, a form, formula : 
see formula.] I. a. 1. Of the nature of a for- 
mula or formal statement; stated precisely, or 
according to certain forms; also, explicitly pre- 
scribed; ritual. 
Why, Sir, in the formulary and statutory part of law a 
plodding blockhead may excel. 
Johnson, quoted in Boswell, I. 18. 
2. Closely adhering to formulas or rules ; for- 
mal. [Rare.] 
There is ... in the incorruptible Sea-green himself, 
though otherwise so lean and formulary, a heartfelt know- 
ledge of this latter fact. Carlyle, French Rev., III. iii. 2. 
II. n. ; p\. formularies (-riz). 1. A prescribed 
form or model ; a formula. 
Tlieformulariet for exorcism still continued, as they con- 
tinue to the present day, in Roman Catholic rituals, and 
they were frequently employed all through the eighteenth 
century. Lecky, nationalism, I. 118. 
2. A collection or system of set forms ; espe- 
cially, a book containing prescribed forms used 
in the services of a church: as. the formulary 
of the Church of England is the Book of Com- 
mon Prayer. 
formulate (for'mu-lat), r. t. ; pret. and pp. for- 
mulated, -p^r. formulating. [< formula + -ate?.] 
To reduce to or express in a formula ; state in a 
precise and comprehensive or systematic form. 
Along with social development, the formulating in law 
of the rights pre-established by custom becomes more 
definite and elaborate. //. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 102. 
There is nothing go pitilessly and unconsciously cruel 
as sincerity formiitated into dogma. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 158. 
Some talkers excel in the precision with which they for- 
mulate their thoughts, so that you get from them some- 
what to remember ; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. 
Emerson, Clubs. 
formulation (fdr-mu-la'shon), n. [= F. for- 
mulation = Pg. formulacSo ; as formulate + 
-ion.] The act, process, or result of formulat- 
ing. 
Only fifty years separate Galilei's " Discorsi " from New- 
ton's " Principia," and the formulation by Leibnitz, in the 
same year 1686, of the doctrine of the conservation of en- 
ergy. Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 386. 
formulatory (f6r'mu-la-to-ri), a. [< formulate 
+ -on/.] Pertaining to 'formulation; formu- 
lated. 
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formulization (for'mu-li-za'shon), . [< for- 
mulize + -ation.] The act or result of formu- 
lizing or reducing to fixed form. Also spelled 
formulisatif/ii. 
The reader is probably well aware of the curious tenden- 
cy to formulization and system which under the name of 
philosophy encumbered the minds of the Renaissance 
M'hoi'lmen. Jtuxkiit. 
Religions belief and rites are considered as (esthetic 
fonnulizations of pious feeling. 
G. S. Hall, German Culture, p. 92. 
formulize (for'mu-Uz), r. t. ; pret. and pp. for- 
malized, ppr. forinulizing. [(formula + -i;r.] 
To fix in a determinate form; construct for- 
mulas of or for; make formal. Also spelled 
formulise. 
Largely, moreover, as invocation of the Blessed Virgin 
is used in the Greek Church, it has nowhere adopted that 
vast/ormdd theory as to her place as the channel of 
all grace to the Church, and to each single soul, which is 
to us the especial "crux" in the Roman system. 
fuiey, Eirenicon, p. 94. 
Intelligent congregations who have taken steps to for- 
mulize their worship. The Century, XXXL 81. 
form-word (form'werd), n. A word showing 
relation only or chiefly; an independent word 
performing an office such as in other languages, 
or in other cases in the same language, is per- 
formed by the formative parts of words: e. g., 
auxiliaries, prepositions, etc. 
formy (for'mi), a. [< F. /orme", pp. of former, 
form: see form, i:] In her., same a.spatte'. 
formyl (f or'mil), n. [Also written formule and 
formule; < form(ic) + -yl] A hypothetical 
univalent radical (CHO). of which formic acid 
may be regarded as the hydrate. 
fornt, adv. [ME., < AS./oran, before: see /ore 1 .] 
Same as /ore 1 . 
Fornax (for'naks), n. [L., a furnace: see fur- 
nace.] 1. A southern constellation, invented 
and named by Lacaille in 1 763. it lies south of the 
western part of Eridanus, and, as its Iwundaries are at 
present drawn, contains no st*rof greatermagnitude than 
the Hfth. 
2. [NL. (Castelnau, 1835).] A genus of elate- 
rid beetles of wide distribution, found in North 
and South America, the West and East Indies, 
Africa, and Australia, of large size and a uni- 
form brownish-black or reddish color, with a 
fine appressed pubescence. Seven species in- 
habit North America, among them F. calceatus. 
forncastt, '. t. [ME. ; </or + casfl.] To ar- 
range beforehand; forecast. 
For he, with grete deliberacioun, 
Hadde every thynge that hereto myght availle 
Forncast, and put in execucioun. 
Chattcer, Troilus, iii. 521. 
He presents the unfamiliar in the guise of the familiar. 
Put in this bald formulatory fashion, the difference be- 
tween the two may seem unimportant. 
Westminster Rev., CXXVIII. 841. 
. 
dr'mul), n. [< F. formule, < L. for- 
mula: see formula.] A formula. 
formule 2 (f&r'mul), m. In chem., same as for- 
myl. 
formulisation, formulise. See formulization, 
formulize. 
formulism (for'mu-lizm), n. [< formula + 
-ism.~\ Adherence to or systematic use of for- 
mulas. 
The whole of this complex theory is ruled by a mathe- 
matical formulimt of triad, hebdomad, etc. 
Encijc. Brit., XII. 603. 
Ry heigh yniaginacioun forncast. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 397. 
fornet, a. [ME., var. of feme : tee fern?.] 
Former. 
The Camel's nous ; whiche it is saied that a certain king 
In/onw yeares, when he had on a ilromedarie catnele es- 
caped the handes of his enemies, huilded there. 
J. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 210. 
fornenst (fQr-nensf), prep. Same asforenejist. 
fornentt (fpr-nenf), prep. Same as foreanent. 
fornical (for'ni-kal), n. [</orni>, an arch, + 
-al.] Pertaining "to the fornix. 
fornicate 1 (for'ni-kat), a. [< L. fornicatus, 
arched, < fornix (fornic-), an arch, vault: see 
fornix.'] 1. Arched; vaulted or arched over 
like an oven or furnace, concave within and 
convex without; hollowed out underneath. 
2. In bot. : (a) Overarched with fornices, as 
the throat of the corolla of the forget-me-not. 
(6) Overarching: as, a fornicate appendage. 
Also forniciform. 
Fornicate clypeus or nasus, in entom., a clypeus or 
nasus that is much elevated and overarches the parts 
beneath, as in certain Ilymenoptera. 
fornicate 2 (for'ni-kat), v. i. ; pret. and pp. for- 
nicated, ppr. fornicating. [< LL. fornicatus, pp. 
of fornicari (> It. fornicare = Pg. Sp. fornicar 
= Pr. fornicar, fornigar = F. forniquer), for- 
nicate, < L. fornix (fornic-), a brothel, so call- 
ed because generally situated in underground 
vaults; lit. an arch, a vault: see fornicate*, a.] 
To have illicit sexnal intercourse: said of an 
unmarried person. 
They permitted stranger virgins and captives to forni- 
cate; only they believed it sinful in the Hebrew maidens 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 215. 
fornication 1 (for-ni-ka'shon), n. [< L. forni- 
catio(n-), a vaulting or arching over, < fornica- 
tus, arched : see fornicate 1 , a.] 1. An arching ; 
the forming of a vault or convexity ; a hollow- 
ing, vaulting, or arching over ; a cameration. 
2. The state of being fornicated or vaulted. 
fornication 2 (f6r-ni-ka'shon), n. [< ME. forni- 
catioun, -cioitn, < OF. fornication. F. fornication 
forpass 
= Pr. fnrniratin = Sp. fornicacion = Pg. forni- 
cacao = It. fnrnicazione, < LL. fornicatio(n-), < 
fornicari, fornicate: see fornicate?.'} The act 
of illicit sexual intercourse on the part of an 
unmarried person with a person of the opposite 
sex, whether married or unmarried. May, J. 
It is a criminal offense in some jurisdictions. In Scrip- 
tural use the word is also applied to adultery, and figu- 
ratively to idolatry. 
A fayre Mayden was blamed with wrong, and sclaun- 
dred, that sche hadde don fornycacioun. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 69. 
Adultery, in Scripture, is sometimes used to signify for- 
mration, and fornication for adultery. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 215. 
fornicator (for'ni-ka-tqr), n. [< ME. fornica- 
tour, < OF. fornicator, F. fornicateur = Pr./or- 
nicadre, fornicador = Sp. Pg. fornicador = It. 
fornicatore, < L. fornicator, < fornicari: see for- 
nicate?.'} One guilty of formication. 
Neither formcatori, nor idolaters, nor adulterers . . . 
shall Inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor. vi. 9. 
fornicatress (for'ni-ka-tres), n. [= F. fornica- 
trice = Pr. fornicairitz = It. fornicatrice ; us for- 
nicator + -ess."} A woman guilty of fornication. 
See you, the fornicatrea be remov'd. 
Shak., M. for M., 11.. 2. 
fornices, n. Plural of fornix. 
forniciform (fr-nis'i-f6rm), a. [< L. fornix 
(fornic-), an arch, a vault, + forma, shape.] 
Same as/ornt'cate 1 . 
fornicolumn (f6r'ni-kol"um), n. [Irreg. < for- 
ni(x) + column.'} A column or pillar of the for- 
nix. [Rare.] 
fornicommissure (f6r-ni-kom'i-sur), n. [Irreg. 
< forni(x) + commissure."} The~commissure of 
the fornix. B. G. Wilder. 
fornimt, r. t. [ME. fornimen, fornemcn, < AS. 
forniman, take away, <for- + niman, take: see 
/or- 1 and nw.] To take away ; appropriate to 
one's own use. 
Euerych tannere that halt bord in the heyestret of Wyn- 
chestre, shal [pay), for the stret that he for-nemeth, twey 
shullynges by the jere. Englieh Gildt(E. E. T. S.), p. 359. 
fornix (fdr'niks), n. ; pi. fornices (-ni-sez). [L., 
an arch, a vault.] 1. In anat. : (a) A median 
symmetrical arched formation in the brain, be- 
neath the corpus callosum and septum lucidum, 
vaulting over the optic thalami and the third 
ventricle, and running into the floor of each 
lateral ventricle. In the human brain it consistsof two 
longitudinal bundles of fibers, one on each side, which 
rise from the corpora albicantia, pass up, as the anterior 
pillars of the fornix, in front of the foramina of Monro 
and 1 M-II i ml the anterior commissure, then, somewhat flat- 
tened and in apposition to each other, arch backward 
beneath the corpus callosum and above the velum inter- 
poitum, forming the tody of the fornix, and then diverge 
toward the back part of the corpus callosum, to turn down, 
as the posterior pillars of the fornix (cmra fornicis), into 
the floor of the descending cornua of the lateral ventri- 
cles, where their free edges form the nmhrhe. See cut 
under corpu*. (&) Some other arched, vaulted, or 
fornicated formation: as, ib.e fornix conjunctiva;. 
the vault of the conjunctiva. 2. InconcJi.: (a) 
The vaulted or excavated part of a shell under 
the umbo. (6) The more concavo-convex one 
of the shells of an inequivalve bivalve, as an 
oyster. 3. In Itot., a small arching crest or ap- 
pendage in the throat or tube of a corolla Body 
of the fornix. See def. 1 (or). Bulbs of the fornix 
See bulb, Columns of the fornix. See column. Del- 
ta fornicis. See delta. Fornix cerebrl, the fornix. 
See def. 1 (n). Fornix cranil, the arch or arched roof 
of the cranium ; the skull-cap or calvarium. Fornix of 
Gottacne, in ichth. See the extract. 
There is a peculiarity about the structure of the optic 
lobes, which has given rise to much diversity of interpre- 
tation of the parts of the brain in osseous fishes. The pos- 
terior wall of these lobes, where it passes into the cere- 
bellum, or in the region which nearly answers to the valve 
of Vienssens in mammals, is thrown forward into a deep 
fold which lies above the crura cerebri and divides the 
iter a tertio ad quartum ventriculum from the ventricle of 
the optic lobes throughout almost the whole extent of the 
latter. This is the fornix of Ootlsche. 
Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 142. 
Fornix of the conjunctiva, the line of reflection of the 
conjunctiva from the eyelids to the eyeball 
foroldt, a. [ME.; </or-i + old.'] Very old. 
A beres skyn, col-blak, far-old. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1284. 
for-OUtt,pre/>. [ME.; <for,forel,+ -out.] With- 
out. 
Sche preied par charite in pes to late hire lengthe 
Fulle a fourtenijt/or-oufe alle greues 
Of saugtes to the cite or any sorwe elles. 
William ofPalerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2681. 
forpampert, ' I. [ME. forpampren ; </or-i + 
/iiiiHjicr.'} To pamper exceedingly ; overfeed. 
They ne were n&tforpampred with outrage. 
Chaucer, Former Age, 1. f>. 
forpasst (for-pas'), v. [</or-i + pass.] J, in- 
trans. To go by ; pass unnoticed. 
