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formal (adj.) Old form(s): formall
normal, sane, rational
AC II.v.41.1[Cleopatra to Messenger] Thou shouldst come like a Fury crowned with snakes, / Not like a formal man
CE V.i.105[Abbess to Adriana, of Antipholus of Ephesus] To make of him a formal man again
TN II.v.115[Malvolio to himself, of the meaning of the letter] this is evident to any formal capacity
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