Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Formulate \For"mu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formulated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Formulating}.]
   To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and
   definite form of statement or expression. --G. P. Marsh.