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单词 formalize
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formalizev.

Brit. /ˈfɔːməlʌɪz/, /ˈfɔːml̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈfɔrməˌlaɪz/
Etymology: < formal adj. + -ize suffix. Compare French formaliser.
1. transitive. To give formal being to; to impart or constitute the form, essence, or characteristic attribute of; to ‘inform’, as the soul the body.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > inform or give a thing its essence [verb (transitive)]
graitha1300
make1340
informa1398
essentiate1561
informate1594
formalize1597
essentialize1669
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lvi. 126 The same Spirit..doth..formalize, vnite and actuate his whole race.
1627 G. Hakewill Apologie i. iv. 39 Quickned and formaliz'd, as the body of man is by its reasonable Soule.
1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. iii. 68 The malice and vitiositie which formalised the action as theirs, is no way imputable to Gods act.
2. To adorn, give a specious appearance to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament
dightc1200
begoa1225
fay?c1225
rustc1275
duba1300
shrouda1300
adorna1325
flourishc1325
apparel1366
depaintc1374
dressa1375
raila1375
anorna1382
orna1382
honourc1390
paintc1390
pare1393
garnisha1400
mensk?a1400
apykec1400
hightlec1400
overfretc1440
exornc1450
embroider1460
repair1484
empare1490
ornate1490
bedo?a1500
purfle?a1500
glorify?1504
betrap1509
broider1509
deck?1521
likelya1522
to set forth1530
exornate1539
grace1548
adornate1550
fardc1550
gaud1554
pink1558
bedeck1559
tight1572
begaud1579
embellish1579
bepounce1582
parela1586
flower1587
ornify1590
illustrate1592
tinsel1594
formalize1595
adore1596
suborn1596
trapper1597
condecorate1599
diamondize1600
furnish1600
enrich1601
mense1602
prank1605
overgreen1609
crown1611
enjewel1611
broocha1616
varnish1641
ornament1650
array1652
bedub1657
bespangle1675
irradiate1717
gem1747
begem1749
redeck1771
blazon1813
aggrace1825
diamond1839
panoply1851
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. lxiii. sig. I4v To formalize his deed, He kneeles him downe.
1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vi. i. 4 I graunt that it is not altogether wealth that doth grace and formalize the actions of men: for in some cases penurie..makes men more valorous.
3. To give formal or definite shape to.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > give structure to or organize
edifya1340
beset1413
reduce?a1425
institutea1538
compile1596
to deraign battle1596
modelize1600
skillc1610
organize1632
formalize1646
model1652
modulize1656
structure1664
economize1691
regiment1698
structurize1912
pattern1967
1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar (1708) II. 298 They establish'd and formaliz'd the Judicatory, by constituting a Moderator, a Clerk, and other essential Members of the Court.
1647 Answ. to Let. to Dr. Turner 19 The Apostles..did in their latter dayes formalize and bound out that power which still we do call Episcopacy.
1844 R. M. Milnes Palm Leaves 89 You can fix and formalize The Power on which you raise your eyes.
1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) ii. 50 The gates..shut against him, did no more than formalize that sentence of banishment.
4. To cause to take sides definitely; reflexive to range oneself, or pronounce, for or against. [So formerly French se formaliser.] Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > resolve or decide upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to decide or make resolute
firm1303
formalize1599
determine1672
resolve1814
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 206 Whereby both parts are formalized and settled in their oppositions.
a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 219 For his Majesty to establish an order, and after to break it..could not but be to him of so hard a digistion..yet he must (if offered)..formalize himself against it.
5. To render formal: (a) to give legal formality to (a document); (b) to render ceremonious, precise, or rigid; (c) to imbue with formalism.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > [verb (transitive)] > validate or ratify
confirmc1290
affirma1325
authorize1431
corrobore1485
stable1501–2
find1512
corroborate1530
authenticate1555
warrant1598
validatea1648
convalidate1656
execute1737
enforce1756
homologatea1765
sanction1778
formalize1855
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > act in accordance with [verb (transitive)] > make formal, rigid, or precise
starch1601
formalize1855
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > bring under ritualism [verb (transitive)]
directorize1651
formalize1855
ceremonialize1858
ritualize1909
spike1923
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > bring into conformity > regularize, normalize, or standardize
sizea1400
annormea1644
disenorma1644
regularize1780
standardize1792
normalize1847
formalize1855
1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 628 Its seal..frequently formalizes legal documents.
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 195 It sought eminently for orderliness..formalized whatever decoration it put into its minor architectural mouldings.
1866 J. H. Newman Let. to Pusey 85 When it is formalized into meditations or exercises, it is as repulsive as love-letters in a police report.
1870 E. M. Goulburn Cathedral Syst. iii. 42 Having a tendency to familiarise them with holy things, and to lower their standard of reverence, or, at best to formalize them.
6. intransitive. To act with formality; to be formal or ceremonious; to show the spirit of a formalist.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > resolve or decide [verb (reflexive)]
appointc1386
castc1386
purposec1390
determine1393
devise1393
delibera1413
resolvea1528
settle1530
to resolve with oneself1578
formalizea1656
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > direct one's conduct by a rule [verb (intransitive)] > act with formality or as a formalist
formalizea1656
a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1659) i. 91 Many times indeed our Gallants can formalize in other words, but evermore the substance, and usually the very words are no other but these of Cains, Let us go out into the Field.
1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage v. 222 Vanity and Formalizing is Lord Foplingtons part.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Formalize, to play the Formalist.
1830 [see formalizing n. and adj. at Derivatives].
7.
a. transitive. To cavil at, raise scrupulous objections to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > objection > object [verb (transitive)]
strivea1400
objectc1443
repugna1513
controlc1525
to lay something in a person's light1530
pass1534
take1542
to think (it) much1548
challenge?1577
except1577
except1597
to formalize upon1597
formalize1599
scruple1627
demur1827
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 95 By culling out the errours..by formalizing the contrarieties; mis-interpreting the ambiguitie, intangling more the obscurities..in the most renowmed authors.
1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1195 His resolution was, to take part with the Christian emperour, if the great Bassaes..should seeke..to formalize his actions..in this maner of the obtaining of his gouernment.
1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 236 That is to say, whether in Reason of State, it ought to be done; and we are formalizing the Matter, whether in point of Equity and Justice it may be done.
b. intransitive. To cavil, raise scruples; to take umbrage; also, to affect scruples. to formalize upon: to scruple at, demur to, haggle over.[Cf. French se formaliser, to take umbrage.]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > objection > object [verb (intransitive)]
opposec1380
repugna1382
object?a1425
to stick at ——1525
quarrel1570
except1597
formalize1597
demur1639
the mind > language > statement > objection > object [verb (transitive)]
strivea1400
objectc1443
repugna1513
controlc1525
to lay something in a person's light1530
pass1534
take1542
to think (it) much1548
challenge?1577
except1577
except1597
to formalize upon1597
formalize1599
scruple1627
demur1827
1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 57 But, because such as delight in this pastime, will formalize..I will not altogether condemne it.
1641 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 41 Ye kings answer to ye parlement..is now to noe purpose. Ye house haveing formalized uppon it, ye king hath recalled it.
1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 216 Some of the townes suspecting the intention began to formalise.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Life (1761) I. iii. 148 Particulars..which the Officers on the King's Side, (who had no Mind to a Cessation) formalized much upon.
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xvii. xi, in Wks. 489 It seems a strange Thing..that Archelaus should be now Formalizing about his Title to a Kingdom, after so absolute an Exercise of sovereign Power over it already.
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 7 He went, not only willingly but ambitiously, and formalised upon nothing that led towards the end he most earnestly desired.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) I. xii. 418 He..told him that they had formalized at his professions.

Derivatives

ˈformalized adj.
ΚΠ
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. vi. 165 Those gloomy rows of formalised minuteness.
ˈformalizing n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > objection > [adjective] > pettily or unfairly
formalizinga1656
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > acting according to some standard, fashion, etc. > conformity to established rules > being formal
formalizinga1656
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun] > conformity to > slavish
formalizinga1656
externalness1667
rituality1679
externality1833
ritualism1838
rubricism1840
ecclesiolatry1847
ceremonialism1854
externalism1856
formalism1856
exterioritya1875
liturgism1926
spikery1965
a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1659) i. 119 They turned..their true fasting into formalizing and partial abstinence.
1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage v. 222 Vanity and Formalizing is Lord Foplingtons part.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §26 He found no formalising Scruples on the Lord Keeper's Part.
1830 G. Croly George IV 364 The spirit of the juntas was timid, frivolous, and formalizing.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. v. 90 A complete formalizing of what was before solid, positive, substantial.
ˈformalizable adj. capable of being formalized.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > of or relating to a system > relating to or founded on a scheme > reduced to a scheme > able to be
formalizable1944
1944 H. Reichenbach in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 27 This formulation given at a later stage was anticipated by Russell's original distinction of formalizable and non-formalizable parts of logic.
1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax i. 19 No adequate formalizable techniques are known for obtaining reliable information concerning the facts of linguistic structure.
ˈformalizer n. one who formalizes.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun] > conformity to > slavish > person characterized by
formalist1609
ritualist1625
ceremonialist1682
rubrician?1734
formalizer1742
rubricist1843
Rit1868
externalist1879
spike1902
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 233 The Ministers turned Formalisers, and the Court mysterious.
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