Word Meanings - FORMALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• FORMALIZE
  1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
• FORMAL
  1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent;
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• MODELING
  The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form. Modeling plane, a small plane
• MODELIZE
  To model. B. Jonson.
• FORMALLY
  In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely. That which formally makes this a Christian grace, is the spring from which it flows. Smalridge. You and your followers do stand formally divided
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• RENDER
  One who rends.
• RENDERER
  1. One who renders. 2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
• RENDERING
  The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered. Specifically: A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. The act of laying
• CERTAINLY
  Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
• CERTAIN
  certus determined, fixed, certain, orig. p. p. of cernere to perceive, decide, determine; akin to Gr. concern, critic, crime, 1. Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. To make her certain of the sad event. Dryden. I
• FORMALISM
  The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion. Official formalism. Sir H. Rawlinson.
• FORMALIST
  One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion. As far a formalist from wisdom sits,
• MODEL
  fr. modulus a small measure, dim. of modus. See Mode, and cf. 1. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size. In charts, in maps, and eke in models made. Gascoigne. I
• FORMALDEHYDE
  A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
• FORMALIN
  An aqueous solution of formaldehyde, used as a preservative in museums and as a disinfectant.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• INFORMALLY
  In an informal manner.
• PRENDER
  The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.
• INFORMALITY
  1. The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings. 2. An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed form or does