Verb (used with object), : He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory. From Dictionary.com.
By a kind of unformulated etiquette one did not call upon candidates for baptism on the day of the ceremony, so I had my first glimpse of. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference
It's a kind of generic, unintellected, unformulated condemnation. From Wordnik.com. [Little House, Packed With Design] Reference
It was the plain, if unformulated, intention of the new Air and Sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
Independence and optimism are vital parts of his unformulated creed. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Although unformulated even to himself, Roger's creed was of the old school. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Rather, the document and proposals are bland, uncritical, unformulated and unchallenging. From Wordnik.com. [CONTENTS] Reference
Mr Mabandla outlined the ANC's unformulated policy in an address to the Johannesburgse Afrikaanse Sakekamer. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Compared to the other musicians around, Airplane were masters of the as yet unformulated San Francisco genre. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Slick The Biography]
He is moved to do this by the paper falling elsewhere, the contagion of paper—it is giddy and unformulated fun. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
Christine a livelier perception of all its bearings than she had known while it had lain unformulated in her mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
But the present issue is simply whether the affected officers were or were not deprived of the advantage of answering unformulated charges. From Wordnik.com. [Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81] Reference
Any plans for expanding AmeriCorps (a program he once opposed but now embraces) remain unformulated, perhaps because the idea is too connected to Bill Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Personality] Reference
The formula of Amadis of Gaul is derived from generations of older unformulated heroes, and implies the exhaustion of the heroic strain, in that line of descent. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Standards are low or unformulated, and it is often extremely difficult for the honorable man to know what to do; strict truthfulness would deprive him of his position. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
She wore her ordinary look of placid contentment, and at the sight of her quiet face Mrs. Rusker dropped panting, with a vague unformulated feeling of relief, into a chair. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
And they worked as if under the impulse of some unformulated motive. From Wordnik.com. [Angel Island] Reference
His unformulated criticism on the others was that they lacked action. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
The clutch of an unformulated doubt had checked the words on her lips. From Wordnik.com. [Bunner Sisters] Reference
Gravitation was a force whose laws and character were yet unformulated. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
But the objectors stick it and die for the unformulated and unexpressed ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on religion at the front] Reference
Bob Wade had an odd unformulated sense of values that Bernald had learned to trust. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Men and Ghosts] Reference
He might have written more; he might have -- but the wish remained still unformulated. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Dows] Reference
Both had grasped the fact of disaster, albeit unformulated, yet both hoped against hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee] Reference
When a poet wishes to utter thoughts that are too unformulated, that lie too deep, for words. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
Hence had arisen an unformulated but enduring faith that Reuben could be depended upon in any emergency. From Wordnik.com. [Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories] Reference
During this strain the recruit hunches up, closes in, seeking aid by an instinctive unformulated reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Battle Studies] Reference
Something as yet unformulated within her kept her estranged from all these practical aspects of her beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference
Considering the generally unformulated character of feudal law at this date, it is neither vague nor general. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)] Reference
But she was struck instead by his inherent refinement, by his unformulated instincts of well-doing and honour. From Wordnik.com. [Love, the Fiddler] Reference
Again his thought was unformulated, little more than the push of young, untamed energy impatient of opposition. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Confounded by this practical expression of his own unformulated good intentions, the Right Bower was staggered. From Wordnik.com. [On the Frontier] Reference
She was very pale now, aghast at what had grown from a faint stirring of unformulated doubt to a spoken reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Privet Hedge] Reference
For some such scheme, existing but unformulated, is, beyond all doubt, the solid sub-structure of all his thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work] Reference
The feeling he had for her was none the less powerful because, in his great simplicity, it was vague and unformulated. From Wordnik.com. [A First Family of Tasajara] Reference
The great difference is that institutions and laws have a positive character, while mores are unformulated and undefined. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
In her vague unformulated longings she had never before realized the degradation into which her foolish romance might lead her. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Dows] Reference
Faith and our Un-Faith, there come, blown across the world-margins, whispers and hints of undreamed of secrets, of unformulated hopes. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
In a curious unformulated way Doggie felt that he had authority over this man so much older than himself, who had once been his master. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
He cast himself over the low log fence just where he was, and hastened back along the edge of the cliff, impelled by unformulated fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Mermaid A Love Tale] Reference
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