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Formidableness. Walpole.

ear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. They seemed to fear the formodable sight. Dryden. I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind. Drydn.

The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread. Boyle.

In a formidable manner.

Very much afraid. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.

Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. -- Form"less*ly, adv. -- Form"less*ness, n.

A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization. Emerson.

The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. C. Kingsley.

To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaæ, etc.; a book of precedents.

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression. G. P. Marsh.

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

A set or prescribed model; a formula. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.

To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.

A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde.

Predestined. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Relating to a fornix.