v. [f. FORMULA + -IZE.] trans. To reduce to or express in a formula; to construct a formula for.
1851. Westcott, Introd. Study Gosp., i. (1872), 49. The labours of Priests and Scribes in after time formulized what the Prophets had taught, that a conquered and tributary people might yet find a definite support for their ancient belief.
1859. Masson, Brit. Novelists, iv. 255. The ideas of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity which that Revolution had promulgated and formulized.
1882. T. Mozley. Remin. Oriel, II. cv. 228. They have formulised their religion into these two monosyllables, and taken their final stand on that worship and that creed.
Hence Formulized ppl. a. Also Formulizer, one who formulizes.
1864. Kingsley, Rom. & Teut., x. 293. If they be told, that the cruelties of the Inquisition were only those in vogue according to the secular law of the day, let them recollect that the formulizers of that law were none other than the celibate Roman clergy.
1865. Pusey, Truth Eng. Ch., 94. As invocation of the Blessed Virgin is used in the Greek Church, it has nowhere adopted that vast formulized theory as to her place as the channel of all grace to the Church, and to each single soul, which is to us the especial ‘crux’ in the Roman system.
