Formed

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Arranged, as stars into a constellation.
  • In heraldry, seated or crouched as in its form: said of a hare.
  • Trained; developed; mature: as, a formed character.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Arranged, as stars in a constellation.
  • adjective. Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized. See Ferment, n.
  • adjective. a term employed by Beale to denote the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly germinal or living matter.
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  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of form.
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  • adjective. having or given a form or shape
  • Word Usage
    "The first _he_, in the seventh example, is, in the opinion of some, nom. to _can hear_ understood; but Mr. N.R. Smith, a distinguished and acute grammarian, suggests the propriety of rendering the sentence thus; "He that formed the ear, _formed it to hear_; can he not hear?""
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