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US
/ˈfɔɹməˌɫaɪzd/
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ADJECTIVE
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concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art)
highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot' - given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures
How To Use formalized In A Sentence
- Humans add a formalized degree of consciousness to the morphic field - the noosphere - and, more importantly, a frequency of imagination.
- To make the melodies come to life, the Xavante choreograph dances in a series of highly formalized patterns.
- This is as common as dirt in the blogosphere and the big wide world, but it's a kind of formalized, group-oriented insanity. Making Light: Open thread 134
- Finally the sigmatic aorist is no longer treated as a formalized conjugation distinct from the non-continuous. The active-stative mess
- With the nuclear scrap heap mounting, federal agencies and industry officials want a formalized recycling program in place to speed up the disposal.
- Where they are formalized they represent essentially nothing more then a short-term ideologically driven support for particular candidates. Are Third Parties the Answer?
- In UK waters regulatory control has not yet been formalised , but once draft regulations come into force ship to ship transfers will only be able to take place in harbour or port authorities.
- Bruce Bennett, who with his partner Kevin Maxfield, opened J. Backlund Designs in 2007, saw Backlund's "doodled" guitar designs on a guitar forum in 2001 and, it took some time, but Bennett finally formalized an agreement with Backlund to make his "VERY exciting" retro-futuristic guitar designs. Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us
- Koldehoff further defined the latter as an ‘expedient, nonformalized industry’, contrasting it to more formal concomitant microlith and large-biface industries.
- The adjunction of the negation of such a sentence to the axioms of the system yields a consistent extension of formalized classical mathematics in which an actually false proposition [ein inhaltlich falscher Satz] is derivable.