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noun

Formulary n. (pl. formularies)

A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents.

Prescribed form or model; formula.

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Etymology of 'Formulary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to know." There were three of these primers set forth during the reign of Henry the Eighth, one in 1535, one in 1539, and one in 1545. During the space that intervened between the publication of the second and that of the third of these primers, appeared "The Litany and Suffrages," a formulary compiled, as is generally believed, by Cranmer, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, and in substance identical with the Litany we use to-day. This Litany of 1544 has been properly described as "the precursor and first instalment of the English Book of Common Prayer." ...

— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington

... and fact, and declared that the five propositions were to be found in /Augustinus/ and were condemned in the sense in which they were understood by the Jansenists. The Assembly of the Clergy having accepted this Bull drew up a formulary of faith based on the teaching it contained. The greater part of the Jansenists either refused entirely to subscribe to this formulary, or else subscribed only with certain reservations and restrictions. The ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey

Words linked to "Formulary" : materia medica, pharmacopeia, pharmacology, pharmacological medicine