formularize

[ fawr-myuh-luh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, for·mu·lar·ized, for·mu·lar·iz·ing.

1. formulate.

formularize

/ ˈfɔːmjʊləˌraɪz /

verb

1. a less common word for formulate

Derived Forms

• ˌformulariˈzation, noun
• ˈformularˌizer, noun

Other Words From

• formu·lar·i·zation noun
• formu·lar·izer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of formularize¹

First recorded in 1850–55; formular(y) + -ize

Example Sentences

On “Be the Cowboy,” her fifth album, she embraces the possibilities of full-scale pop — not to formularize her emotions, but to give them an even larger canvas.

From New York Times

It is not logic that makes men reasonable, nor the science of ethics that makes men good, but it is always useful to analyse, to formularize and to investigate. 

From Project Gutenberg

But though we cannot formularize reasons, we have instincts; and sometimes instinct sees more clearly than reason.

From Project Gutenberg

"I've been trying to build up a concept of the framework wherein psi seems to function," I told him casually, just as if it were all a formularized laboratory procedure.

From Project Gutenberg

Even the prescriptions were formularized to such an extent that most of them were stencilled and went by numbers.

From Project Gutenberg