<h1>Formule</h1> <Xpage=587>
<hw>For"mule</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>A set or prescribed model; a formula.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<i>Johnson.</i>
<h1>Formulization</h1> <Xpage=587>
<hw>For`mu*li*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.</def>
<h1>Formulize</h1> <Xpage=587>
<hw>For"mu*lize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Formulized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Formulizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To reduce to a formula; to formulate.</def>
<i>Emerson.</i>
<h1>Formyl</h1> <Xpage=587>
<hw>For"myl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Form</ets>ic + <ets>-yl</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A univalent radical, <chform>H.C:O</chform>, regarded as the essential residue of <i>formic</i> acid and aldehyde.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Formerly, the radical methyl, <chform>CH3</chform>.</def>
<h1>Forncast</h1> <Xpage=587>
<hw>Forn*cast"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>foren + cast</ets>. See <er>Forecast</er>.]</ety> <def>Predestined.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<i>Chaucer.</i>
<h1>Fornical</h1> <Xpage=587>
<hw>For"ni*cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to a fornix.</def>
<h1>Fornicate, Fornicated</h1> <Xpage=587>
<hw><hw>For"ni*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>For"ni*ca`ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fornicatus</ets>, fr. <ets>fornix</ets>, <ets>-icis</ets>, an arch, vault.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.</def>
<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Arching over; overarched.</def>
<i>Gray.</i>
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<h1>Fornicate</h1> <Xpage=588>
<hw>For"ni*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fornicatus</ets>, <ets>p. p. of fornicari</ets> to fornicate, fr. <ets>fornix</ets>, <ets>-icis</ets>, a vault, a brothel in an underground vault.]</ety> <def>To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.</def>
<h1>Fornication</h1> <Xpage=588>
<hw>For`ni*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fornication</ets>, L. <ets>fornicatio</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.</def>
<note>&hand; In England, the offense, though cognizable in the ecclesiastical courts, was not at common law subject to secular prosecution. In the United States it is indictable in some States at common law, in others only by statute.</note>
<i>Whartyon.</i>
<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Script.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Adultery.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Incest.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>Idolatry.</def>
<h1>Fornicator</h1> <Xpage=588>
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