Dictionary entry

Formed

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Formed (?), a. 1. (Astron.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.

2. (Biol.) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.

Formed material(Biol.), a term employed by Beale to denote the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly germinal or living matter.