Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Formulary   /fˈɔrmjəlˌɛri/   Listen
noun
Formulary  n.  (pl. formularies)  
1.
A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents.
2.
Prescribed form or model; formula.


adjective
Formulary  adj.  Stated; prescribed; ritual.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Formulary" Quotes from Famous Books



... word of God. The rule, "Let all things be done in order," coupled with the injunction, "to obey those who have rule over you," justified every national church in framing articles of concord, and a formulary for public worship; and he thought private Christians could not be vindicated for disobeying their spiritual superiors, unless the required terms included something contrary to divine laws. He inferred from Acts, chap. iv. v. 24, and the following verses, that a form of prayer was early ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West
... educated in the congregation of the Oratory. Appointed director of its school in Paris, he wrote Pensees Chretiennes sur les quatre Evangiles, which was the germ of his later work. In 1684 he fled to Brussels, because he felt himself unable to sign a formulary decreed by the Oratorians on account of its acceptance of some of the principles of Descartes to which Arnauld and the famous writers of the school of ...
— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield
... pay him feudal service for his dukedom of Brittany. In return, Richard swore to be his good Lord, and to protect him from all his foes. Then followed Bernard the Dane, and many another, each repeating the same formulary, as their large rugged hands were clasped within those little soft fingers. Many a kind and loving eye was bent in compassion on the orphan child; many a strong voice faltered with earnestness as it pronounced the vow, and many a brave, ...
— The Little Duke - Richard the Fearless • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "office," in ecclesiastical usage, means a formulary of devotions; a form of service appointed for a particular occasion; a prescribed form or act of worship; thus the Daily Morning and Evening Prayer are called the "Daily Offices." The word is commonly used of the various services set forth ...
— The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia • William James Miller
... me, Bill?" asked the boy, half mechanically, with the air of repeating some jocular formulary perfectly understood by Bill. ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com