Meanings
nounefformation (countable and uncountable, plural efformations)
plural efformations
- countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of giving shape or form; formation.
[describing a horse] […] but as in an Egge for Example, about the third day the Hen has sate on it, in that part where Nature begins to set upon her work of efformation, all is turned into a Crystalline liquid substance about her […]
1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 68
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