Literary notes about Formed (AI summary)
The word "formed" is deployed with a rich variety of meanings in literature, ranging from the physical shaping of objects to the abstract crafting of ideas and institutions. It is used to depict tangible transformations, such as when natural features or constructed items are described as taking on a specific shape—as in a mountain that formed a quay [1] or a fallen tree trunk that formed the only means of crossing a chasm [2]. Equally, it conveys the assembly of groups or systems, illustrated by passages where committees, military divisions, or entire communities are depicted as being formed through deliberate action [3, 4, 5]. In more abstract contexts, "formed" captures the notion of gradually developing personal opinions or character, as a mind, style, or constitution is formed by a series of influences [6, 7, 8]. The term even bridges into the realm of language, used to explain how words or grammatical structures are formed from smaller elements [9, 10]. Through these diverse applications, "formed" consistently evokes a sense of creation—whether of physical matter, social order, or conceptual substance.
- The Nautilus was stationary, floating near a mountain which formed a sort of quay.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - The trunk of a fallen tree formed the only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not even two squirrels could have passed each other in safety.
— from The Aesop for Children by Aesop - They are saying that a committee to assist the sufferers from the fire must be formed at once.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - 110 By this time their federal constitution must in some shape have been formed.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius - I asked the illustrious general if at Waterloo he had not formed the Hanoverian, Brunswick, and Belgian troops in columns by battalions.
— from The Art of War by baron de Antoine Henri Jomini - The mind of Maximus was formed in a rougher mould.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - He had formed his own opinion from the papers entrusted to him, and did not especially want to go into the matter with his senior partner.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - He saw her lips formed into a no , though the sound was inarticulate, but her face was like scarlet.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - A peculiar class of diminutives is formed by adding -culo- to the comparative stem
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - A stem or word formed from a noun stem is called a Denominative .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
