formulary

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an official list of medicines approved for use or covered by a health plan

   The insurer added the new medicine to its formulary.

2. 2
   noun

   a collection of prescribed formulas or model forms, especially for scientific, legal, or religious use

   The economist presented the system through a set of arithmetical formularies.

3. 3
   adj

   of, governed by, or having the nature of a fixed formula

   The clerk rejected the document because it omitted the required formulary wording.

Borrowed from Middle French formulaire, from Latin formula, 'small form, rule, or prescribed wording,' itself a diminutive of forma, 'form.' The medical sense developed from books of standardized medicinal preparations.

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