- 9. Type in a chase (ready for printing).
- 10. Mould, pattern, model.
- 11. (Met. Arrangement, organization, combination, law of combination, principle of arrangement or
synthesis, a priori principle.
Form, v. a.
- 1. Fashion, shape, mould.
- 2. Make, create, produce.
- 3. Contrive, devise, invent, frame.
- 4. Constitute, compose, make up.
- 5. Arrange, dispose, combine.
Formal, a.
- 1. Express, explicit, positive, strict, official, in due form, according to established form.
- 2. Regular, methodical, set, fixed, rigid, stiff.
- 3. Ceremonious, precise, punctilious, stiff, starch, starched, prim, affectedly exact.
- 4. Constitutive, essential.
- 5. External, as mere form, merely formal.
- 6. (Met.) Organic, formative, primordial, innate, a priori.
Formality, n.
- 1. Custom, established mode, settled method, rule of proceeding.
- 2. Ceremony, conventionality, etiquette, mere form.