formed, ppl. a.
(fɔːmd)
[f. form v. + -ed1.]
1. In senses of the vb.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 172/1 Foormyd, formatus. 1611 Bible Wisd. x. 1 The first formed father of the world. 1669 Woodhead St. Teresa i. Pref. 24 Without any formed words, Exterior or Interior. 1692 Ray Dissol. World ii. iii. (1732) 123 Petrified shells now passing under the name of formed stones. 1717 tr. Frezier's Voy. S. Sea 119 Form'd Apples, half green, and quite ripe, all together. 1796–7 Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 187 The formed part of the regiments. 1871 Freeman 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. 1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. §3 A long, form'd discourse. 1725 tr. 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. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iv. §12. 23 Besides the which there are some other rather peccant humours, then fourmed diseasses. 1676–7 Marvell Corr. cclxxvii. Wks. 1872–5 II. 506 It tooke not so much place as to come to a formed question. 1681–6 J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 386 Government is essential to formed and regular Societies. 1771 Mackenzie Man of Feeling xl. (1803) 90 Though he had no formed complaint, his health was manifestly on the decline. 1818 Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. viii. 659 Without any formed intention of mendacity. |
| c. 1833 Regul. Instr. Cavalry i. 83 A formed horse must be rode on the bit entirely. 1834 J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1837) I. xv. 276 The spontaneous acts of the formed Christian temper. 1865 M. 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.
| 1727–41 Chambers 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.
| 1592 W. Wyrley Armorie 111 Ten formed croslets. |