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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
enform .
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Examples
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The concept of truth involves the idea of the formal cause, that is, the cause in virtue of which matter is enformed, and a thing becomes what it is.
Philip the Chancellor McCluskey, Colleen 2007
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And sithe that Cristene men han suche beleeve, that ben enformed and taughte alle day, be holy doctryne, where inne thei schold beleeve, it is no marvaylle thanne, that the
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The lord high Admiral of England being thus on the sudden, namely vpon the 19. of July about foure of the clocke in the afternoone, enformed by the pinasse of captaine
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And sithe that Cristene men han suche beleeve, that ben enformed and taughte alle day, be holy doctryne, where inne thei schold beleeve, it is no marvaylle thanne, that the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And whereas we are enformed of the sayd Edward Osborne knight,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Which made answere that they sawe and knew well that the towne was lost for certaine reasons that were told them: by occasion whereof they had gainesaid the ordinance of the sayd lord, and sayd that they had bene wrong enformed of diuers things: and on the other side, that they feared that the Turke would not hold his word.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I did also acquaint our Maiesty with the contents of your Lordships letters written to mee, and enformed her of your
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For hee being purposed to haue had his wines to Constantinople, or he was enformed of the busines of Rhodes, and was in the porte du
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And when he hath enformed the intellect, then he passeth forth to the den of memory, and bearing with him the prints of likeness, which are made in those other dens, he layeth them up in the chamber of memory.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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It was so that God heard their prayers and beheld their bounty and good living, and gave unto them a son, which was named Alexis, whom they did to be taught and enformed in all sciences and honours.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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