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adjective
formalized  adj.  
1.
Concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms, especially in religion or art; using formalism; as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".
Synonyms: formalistic.
2.
Given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures. official (vs. unofficial) - (having official authority or sanction: "official permission"; "an official representative")





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"Formalized" Quotes from Famous Books



... life had, as it were, formalized many hitherto somewhat vague details of Mrs. Pember's conception of the place of future punishment; and when her husband died in an appropriate and indecorous fashion as the result of a brawl, he continued to mitigate the relief of the event by leaving in his wife's ...
— A Christmas Accident and Other Stories • Annie Eliot Trumbull
... it may, the plan to establish a courthouse which was formalized by the Governor in Council apparently was deliberately designed to accommodate the increasing settlement of areas inland from the river plantations—an interest which the Proprietor, Thomas ...
— The Fairfax County Courthouse • Ross D. Netherton
... may be cited from Nootka. We shall return to our "fire in the house."[107] The Nootka word inikw-ihl "fire in the house" is not as definitely formalized a word as its translation, suggests. The radical element inikw- "fire" is really as much of a verbal as of a nominal term; it may be rendered now by "fire," now by "burn," according to the syntactic exigencies of the sentence. The derivational element -ihl "in the house" ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir


Words linked to "Formalized" :   art, formalised, artistic creation, formalism, religious belief, official, religion, formalistic


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