formula

formula
formula (n.) 1630s, "words used in a ceremony or ritual," from L. formula "form, draft, contract, regulation; rule, method, formula," lit. "small form," dim. of forma "form" (see FORM (Cf. form) (n.)). Modern sense is colored by Carlyle's use (1837) of the word for "rule slavishly followed without understanding" [OED].
Men who try to speak what they believe, are naked men fighting men quilted sevenfold in formulae. [Charles Kingsley, "Letters," 1861]
Mathematical use is from 1796; use in chemistry is from c.1846.

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