Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Formá-re, v. a.
1. to form, frame, make, fashion, fabricate; 2. to form, design, dispose, arrange, put in order. — parola, to articulate, pronounce. — un processo ad uno, to draw an indictment against any one. — un assedio, to lay siege to. — una questione, to propose a question; 3. to make a model, take a cast (as sculptors, &c.);v. r. 1. to be made or formed; 2. to be bred, generated; 3. to arise; 4. to frame an idea to one's self, conceive; s. m. Formá-tóre, f. Formá-tríce; adj.Formá-nte .
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formare: to forme, to shapen, to fashion, to giue forme or shape vnto.