"Formulary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "office," in ecclesiastical usage, means a formulary of devotions; a form of service appointed for a particular occasion; a prescribed form or act of worship; thus the Daily Morning and Evening Prayer are called the "Daily Offices." The word is commonly used of the various services set forth ...
— The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia • William James Miller
... me, Bill?" asked the boy, half mechanically, with the air of repeating some jocular formulary perfectly understood by Bill. ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... are two sciences, the one of which, purely speculative, has more to do with philosophy than with the permanent conflicts which agitate the world; the other of which could not alone furnish us with rules in practice, nor with a formulary for the measures to be taken in a given case, since such a pretension would be both vain and ridiculous, but which would inform the practical judgment of men charged with the solution of the numberless difficult and complicated questions ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher |
