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Developmental (as years)
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formative
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or characterized by formative effects or formation; "the formative arts" susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years" beginning to develop; "inchoative stages" [syn: inchoative ] capable of forming new cells ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Middle French formatif , from Latin format- , past participle stem of formare "to form," from forma (see form (n.)). As a noun, in grammar, from 1816.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something. 2 Capable of forming something. 3 (context biology English) Capable of producing new tissue. 4 (context grammar English) Pertaining to the inflection of words. n. (context grammar ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formative \Form"a*tive\, n. (Gram.) That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word. A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a formative experience (= one that has an important influence on the way someone develops ) ▪ The trip was probably the most formative experience of my life. a formative stage (= when someone or something is developing ...
Usage examples of formative.
I was born and bred in Auckland and spent most of my formative years there.
The panorama experienced through our physical senses, which we call the material world, as well as our individual minds and other aspects of our being, are all manifested patterns formed by a greater Mind the Universal or Formative Mind.
It seems at present necessary to abandon the original idea of Schwann, that we can observe the building up of a cell from the simple granules of a blastema, or formative fluid.
Though this research is in the formative stage, I am encouraged by what appears to be a dual manifestation of cardiac and neurological shutoff typified by simultaneous twitchlike movement of the eyes combined with a measurable slackening of the lips.
He went through his formative years in an age when the fortunes of the imperial court and those institutions that supported it, including the Tendai and Shingon churches, were far lower than they had been during the youth of Honen or even of Shinran.
It is certainly conceivable that the selfishness and cruelty towards the serfs that ran right through the governing elites of Tsarist Russia went back in some cases to the formative experiences of childhood.
Yogachara of Asanga and Vasubandhu, see the archetypes as habit-memories more than eternal Forms, though all agree that the archetypes are formative processes prior to but not other to any particular manifestation.
The levels of Formative Mind energy are increasingly subtle blueprints of each other and provide the means for the manifestation of the more outward levels.
Formative Mind and so we are more readily attuned to those people with whom we are attached or associated, for the intertwining of our destinies is written into the mind centres of all concerned.
And since it is the mental patterns at an unconscious level in the Formative Mind energy which enables us to perform any outward action, the mental repetition of an image in which the player can really perform the action well is automatically replayed when the player meets the situation on the field.
White Castle and the formative years for fast-food hamburgers exist only as footnotes in scholarly works either praising or criticizing Ray Kroc and his golden arches.
According to our karmas, according to the patternings within the Formative Mind, we receive a physical body spun out of the five tattwas and patterned by these inward essences of energy.
They cannot fully represent the hierarchical, multifaceted, multilayered structure of the Formative Mind.
Lyall Watson in Supernature, Super-nature II, Lifetide and his other books, are all explicable when one understands the multilevel, multifaceted and totally integrated aspects of the Formative Mind.
But these two revealing perceptions of order and design in the physical universe are discussed more fully in Natural Creation: The Mystic Harmony, for they represent clear scientific evidence in favour of the Formative Mind hypothesis.