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Formed

1. (Science: astronomy) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.

2. (Science: biology) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organised; as, the formed or organised ferments.

formed material, 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.