Form

form, n. shape of a body: the boundary-line of an object: a model: a mould: mode of being: mode of arrangement: order: regularity: system, as of government: beauty or elegance: established practice: ceremony: fitne or efficiency for any undertaking: a blank schedule to be filled in with details: a specimen document to be copied or imitated: ( phil. ) the inherent nature of an object, that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing, that in which the e ence of a thing consists: ( print. ) the type from which an impre ion is to be taken arranged and secured in a chase—often Forme :—( in the fol. senses pron. fōrm), a long seat, a bench: the pupils on a form, a cla : the bed of a hare, which takes its shape from the animal's body.— v.t. to give form or shape to: to make: to contrive: to settle, as an opinion: to combine: to go to make up: to establish: ( gram. ) to make by derivation.— v.i. to a ume a form.— adj. Form′al , according to form or established mode: ceremonious, punctilious, methodical: having the form only: ( Shak. ) embodied in a form: having the power of making a thing what it is: e ential: proper.— v.t. and v.i. Form′alise .— ns. Form′alism , exce ive observance of form or conventional usage, esp. in religion: stiffne of manner; Form′alist , one having exaggerated regard to rules or established usages; Formal′ity , the precise observance of forms or ceremonies: established order: sacrifice of substance to form.— adv. Form′ally .— n. Formā′tion , a making or producing: structure: ( geol. ) a group of strata of one period.— adj. Form′ative , giving form, determining, moulding: ( gram. ) inflectional, serving to form, not radical.— n. a derivative.— p.adj. Formed , trained, mature.— n. Form′er .— adj. Form′le , shapele .— Formal logic (see Logic ).— Good , or Bad , form , according to good social usage, or the opposite; Take form , to a ume a definite appearance. [O. Fr. forme —L. form a , shape.]