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o·ral-for·mu·la·ic (ôrʹəl-fôr'myə-lāʹĭk, ōrʹ-)
adj.
Of or relating to poetry in which traditional material is improvised at each performance by using verbal formulas as an aid to memory.
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Universalium. 2010.
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