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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The act of giving shape or form.

[Obs.]

Ray.

Noun.

The act of giving shape or form.

[We now use formation.]

efformation ‎(plural efformations)

(obsolete) The act of giving shape or form; formation.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 68:
  [describing a horse] " […] but as in an Egge for Example, about the third day the Hen has sate on it, in that part where Nature begins to set upon her work of efformation, all is turned into a Crystalline liquid substance about her […] "