formalize

formalize
/fawr"meuh luyz'/, v.t., formalized, formalizing.
1. to make formal, esp. for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
2. to give a definite form or shape to.
3. to state or restate (the rules or implied rules of a grammar or the like) in symbolic form.
Also, esp. Brit., formalise.
[1590-1600; FORMAL1 + -IZE]

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