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Obsolete form of form. / (printing) Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)

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Source Word

forme

Noun

alt-of obsolete alternative

Obsolete form of form. / (printing) Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)

Japanese Meaning

（古語）「form（形、様式、構造など）」の意味を引き継ぐ形。 / （印刷において）「form」の代替として用いられる意味、印刷用の型や活字の型としての意味。

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The old manuscript preserves the word forme as an archaic variant of form.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その古い写本には、『形』という語の古い異なる綴りが残されている。

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Sense（1）

Obsolete form of form.

And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […]

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