or FORMULARY, a rule or model, or certain terms prescribed or decreed by authority, for the form and manner of an act, instrument, proceeding, or the like.

in Church-History and Theology, signifies a profession of faith.

in Medicine, imports the constitution of medicines, either simple or compound, both with respect to their prescription and confitence.

a theorem or general rule, or expression, for solving certain particular cases of some problem, &c.

so \( \frac{1}{2} s + \frac{1}{2} d \) is a general formula for the greater of

(A) The hours of the Chinese are double ours: the hour yn begins at three in the morning and ends at five; ouei begins at three in the afternoon and ends at five. two quantities whose sum is s, and difference d; and

\[ \frac{1}{2}s - \frac{1}{2}d \]

is the formula, or general value, for the less quantity. Also \( \sqrt{dx-x^2} \), is the formula, or general value, of the ordinate to a circle, whose diameter is d, and abscissa x.