The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formulary \For"mu*la*ry\, a. [Cf. F. formulaire. See Formula.] Stated; prescribed; ritual.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "collection of set forms," from French formulaire "collection of formulae," from noun use of Latin adjective formularius, from formula "a form" (see formula). As an adjective in English, "of the nature of a formula," 1728. The Latin adjective also was used as a noun meaning "a lawyer skilled in composing writs."
Wiktionary
a. Stated; prescribed; ritual. n. A pharmacopoeia or list of available drugs, particularly prescription drugs
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or of the nature of a formula
n. (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation [syn: pharmacopeia]
Wikipedia
Formularies (singular formulary; Latin littera(e) formularis, -ares) are medieval collections of models for the execution of documents (acta), public or private; a space being left for the insertion of names, dates, and circumstances peculiar to each case. Their modern equivalent are forms.
Formulary may refer to:
- Formulary (model documents), ancient and medieval collections of models for official writings
- Formulary (pharmacy), list of prescription drugs covered by a particular drug benefit plan
At its most basic level, a formulary is a list of medicines. Traditionally, a formulary contained a collection of formulas for the compounding and testing of medication (a resource closer to what would be referred to as a pharmacopoeia today). Today, the main function of a prescription formulary is to specify particular medications that are approved to be prescribed at a particular hospital, in a particular health system, or under a particular health insurance policy. The development of prescription formularies is based on evaluations of efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of drugs.
Depending on the individual formulary, it may also contain additional clinical information, such as side effects, contraindications, and doses.
By the turn of the millennium, 156 countries had national or provincial essential medicines lists and 135 countries had national treatment guidelines and/or formulary manuals.
Usage examples of "formulary".
Christianity which was delivered for all time by the early teachers of the Church, and which was registered and attested in the Anglican formularies and by the Anglican divines.
The food for its satire, too, is most admirably chosen, for no feature of the social life of that place and period is more amiably absurd than the efforts of the handicraftsmen and tradespeople, with their prosaic surroundings, to keep alive by dint of pedantic formularies the spirit of minstrelsy, which had a natural stimulus in the chivalric life of the troubadours and minnesingers of whom the mastersingers thought themselves the direct and legitimate successors.
A formulary of consent was transmitted by the messengers of state to the absent bishops: and all those who refused to submit their private opinion to the public and inspired wisdom of the councils of Arles and Milan, were immediately banished by the emperor, who affected to execute the decrees of the Catholic church.
I mean only, that when they could convert an allodium into a fief, which was to descend to their heirs, as is the case of the formulary above mentioned, they had very great advantages in doing it.
Besides, we find by the formularies of Marculfus169 that there were freemen dependent on these jurisdictions in the earliest times: the bondmen were, therefore, subject to the jurisdiction, because they were upon the territory.
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.
On either side of the Hellespont his episcopal vigor imposed a rigid formulary of faith and discipline.
A formulary of consent was transmitted by the messengers of state to the absent bishops: and all those who refused to submit their private opinion to the public and inspired wisdom of the councils of Arles and Milan, were immediately banished by the emperor, who affected to execute the decrees of the Catholic church.
The chaplain considerately made his service short, since so few of those attending could follow the formulary of a Russian Orthodox mass.