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What is "formalise"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
formalise
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a practice grows its structure will need formalising to facilitate proper control.
▪ By formalising their relationship, the companies hope to provide an established platform which implements the core technology behind the Intelligent Network.
▪ It is worth formalising the situation, for reasons which will emerge later.
▪ Perhaps there is an argument for clarifying and formalising this co-operation.
▪ The middle way seeks to formalise, or at least make explicit, normative patterns in the general activity of reading.
▪ This project accordingly plans to formalise and devise a computational implementation of Fodor-Sperber-Wilson assumptions about language and language processing.
▪ While schools are attempting to get away from the system, we are formalising it by offering five different levels of funding.
Wiktionary
formalise

vb. (alternative spelling of formalize English)

WordNet
formalise

  1. v. make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title" [syn: formalize]

  2. declare or make legally valid [syn: validate, formalize] [ant: invalidate]

Usage examples of "formalise".

It struck her as absurd, this intense preoccupation with form and appearance, with the minutiae of rituals formalised as slow ballets.

Gathering with ancient formalised and ritual words, then spoke what was on his mind.

Prefect Tholius dragged you off before you could pay me my retainer and we never did get round to formalising the deal.

The layout, betrayed North African influences in the long low couches against the walls, the use of a carpet not to walk on but as a wall-hanging, the small tables on one of which rested a set of tiny copper cups for Algerian coffee, each nestling in its own hollow in a tray of beaten brass with formalised Arabic script enamelled around the rim.