The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formulary \For"mu*la*ry\, n.; pl. Formularies. [Cf. F. formulaire.]
A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formula[ae], etc.; a book of precedents.
Prescribed form or model; formula.
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n. (plural of formulary English)
Usage examples of "formularies".
It cannot, therefore, be proved by original contracts, that the jurisdictions were at first annexed to the fiefs: but if in the formularies of the confirmations, or of the translations of those fiefs in perpetuity, we find, as already has been observed, that the jurisdiction was there established.
If daughters had been generally debarred by the Salic law from the inheritance of land, it would be impossible to explain the histories, formularies, and charters which are continually mentioning the lands and possessions of the females under the first race.
It appears by the formularies of Marculfus that it was a privilege belonging to a king's vassal, that whoever killed him should pay a composition of six hundred sous.
But when it has come to be an hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively-when the mind is no longer compelled, in the same degree as at first, to exercise its vital powers on the questions which its belief presents to it, there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies, or to give it a dull and torpid assent, as if accepting it on trust dispensed with the necessity of realizing it in consciousness, or testing it by personal experience.
The Church, it is very true, enjoins it in her formularies, but it would be difficult to derive any such injunction from Christianity.