Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending or serving to form.
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Examples
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Because you're, what the wise man calls, "formatory". by Robert Hoogenboom on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 10: 39: 33 AM
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He had heard that in the formatory boys were actually whipped-like on ships-and sometimes put in a little metal box called The Tin.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
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The alternative was North Windham Training Center, which was a formatory.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
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I care about what you think, even if the thought process is in the formatory stage.
Advice to NECC06 bloggers by someone who is (virtually) attending. 2006
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We're still in the formatory stages and that is why we need YOU to join the discussion.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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We're still in the formatory stages and that is why we need YOU to join the discussion.
If you're going to NECC and you are a blogger -- we need you! 2006
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I care about what you think, even if the thought process is in the formatory stage.
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
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For the town of Framingham, toward the annual expense of maintaining the system of sewage disposal at said re - formatory, the sum of six hundred dollars.
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To provide for certain repairs at the Massachusetts reformatory, as authorized by chapter forty-nine of the resolves of the present year, a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars, to be paid out of the Massachusetts Re - formatory Industries Fund.
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Chap. 639. whom shall be women, in whom and in their successors shall be vested the government and management of a school for the industrial training and for the instruction and re - formatory treatment of boys committed thereto.
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