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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Arranged, as stars into a constellation.
  • In heraldry, seated or crouched as in its form: said of a hare.
  • Trained; developed; mature: as, a formed character.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Astron.), rare Arranged, as stars in a constellation.
  • adjective (Biol.) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized. See Ferment, n.
  • adjective (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.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of form.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or given a form or shape

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