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formed, ppl. a.|fɔːmd|
[f. form v. + -ed1.]
1. In senses of the vb.
c1440Promp. Parv. 172/1 Foormyd, formatus. 1611Bible Wisd. x. 1 The first formed father of the world. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. Pref. 24 Without any formed words, Exterior or Interior. 1692Ray Dissol. World ii. iii. (1732) 123 Petrified shells now passing under the name of formed stones. 1717tr. Frezier's Voy. S. Sea 119 Form'd Apples, half green, and quite ripe, all together. 1796–7Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 187 The formed part of the regiments. 1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. vii. 173 A tongue which is as..a formed and polished speech.
2. esp.
†a. Drawn up according to rule; formal, set.
b. That has obtained distinct development or formulation; decided, definite, settled.
c. Perfected by training or discipline; matured.
a.1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. §3 A long, form'd discourse. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 68 In the First he treats of the canonical or form'd Epistles. Ibid. 69 Gerard Rodolphus..whose Book of Canonical, Form'd..and Dimissory Letters were printed at Cologne in 1582.
b.1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iv. §12. 23 Besides the which there are some other rather peccant humours, then fourmed diseasses. 1676–7Marvell Corr. cclxxvii. Wks. 1872–5 II. 506 It tooke not so much place as to come to a formed question. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 386 Government is essential to formed and regular Societies. 1771Mackenzie Man of Feeling xl. (1803) 90 Though he had no formed complaint, his health was manifestly on the decline. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. viii. 659 Without any formed intention of mendacity.
c.1833Regul. Instr. Cavalry i. 83 A formed horse must be rode on the bit entirely. 1834J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1837) I. xv. 276 The spontaneous acts of the formed Christian temper. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. viii. (1875) 326 An effect not only upon the young and enthusiastic..but upon formed and important personages.
†d. formed bachelor (= med.L. baccalaureus formatus), a bachelor who has performed the whole of his ‘forma’: see form n. 11 c.
This was the highest stage in the degree of B.D. in mediæval universities, the earlier stages being those of cursor or biblicus, and sententiarius.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Bachelor, At present, formed bachelor denotes a person who has taken the degree regularly, after the due course of study..by way of opposition to a currant bachelor who is admitted in the way of grace, or by diploma.
3. Her. = formé, -ée, pattée.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie 111 Ten formed croslets. |