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1860 Earl Carnarvon Recoll. Druses Lebanon v. 49 The Druse doctrines were..rapidly formulated into a system.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iv. §26. 88 Besides that definite consciousness of which Logic formulates the laws, there is also an indefinite consciousness which cannot be formulated.

1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. ix. 225 Lord Raglan did not unconsciously formulate for himself any settled design.

1883 Q. Rev. 156 326 The Heads of Houses..entrusted the Provost..with the responsibility of formulating the document.

1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 12 I listened..to the dialogue of the two detectives. Gregory was formulating his theory.

1906 E. Phillpotts Portreeve i. x She..stood for the moment powerless to formulate a clear pathway through this thicket of ideas.

1907 Smart Set Mar. 134 He resolved to send her some volumes of Ruskin and to formulate a graduated course of reading.

1910 E. M. Albanesi For Love of Anne Lambert 91 Anne began to put into movement the scheme that had formulated itself in her mind.

1924 A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl i. vii. 69 It was strange to her, as she spoke, to feel how deeply she knew all this about Giles, though she had never before formulated it to herself.

1919 K. Pearson in C. Goring Eng. Convict 12 The use by the formulator of a thoroughly unscientific method does not justify us in rejecting his hypothesis.

1966 New Statesman 13 May 682/1 The three officials..should not be regarded..simply as civil servants. Stan Morris..is more a formulator of policy.

1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 235 Formulated doctrine.

1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 99 An established, formulated, orthodox spiritism.

1895 Athenæum 24 Aug. 253/1 The formulating effects of his [Laud's] churchmanship.