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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Form \Form\ (f[^o]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formed} (f[^o]rmd); p. pr & vb n. {Forming}.] [F. former, L. formare, fr forma. See {Form}, n.] 1. To give form or shape to to frame; to construct; to make to fashion. God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe. 2. To give a particular shape to to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust also to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. 'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. --Dryden. 3. To go to make up to act as constituent of to be the essential or constitutive elements of to answer for to make the shape of -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. --Burke. 4. To provide with a form as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. --Drayton. 5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Formed \Formed\, a. 1. (Astron.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as formed stars. [R.] 2. (Biol.) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as the formed or organized ferments. See {Ferment}, n. {Formed material} (Biol.), 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: formed adj 1: clearly defined; "I have no formed opinion about the chances of success" [syn: {defined}, {settled}] 2: having or given a form or shape [ant: {unformed}] 3: formed in the mind [syn: {conceived}] 4: having taken on a definite arrangement; "cheerleaders were formed into letters"; "we saw troops formed into columns" 5: fully developed as by discipline or training"a fully formed literary style"
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