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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FORMED

pp. Made; shaped; molded; planned; arranged; combined; enacted; constituted.

 

FORMEDON

n.[forma doni. ] A writ for the recovery of lands by statute of Westminister.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FORMED

FORMED Formed, a.

 

1. (Astron.)

 

Defn: Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars. [R.]

 

2. (Biol.)

 

Defn: Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n. Formed material (Biol.), a term employed by Beale to denote the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly germinal or living matter.

 

FORMEDON

For "me *don, n. Etym: [OF. , fr. Latin. So called because the plaintiff claimed "by the form of the gift, : L. per formam doni. ] (O. Eng. Law )

 

Defn: A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

 

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