Adjective

(en adjective)

Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

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, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,

Refined, elegant.

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She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished , pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Being in accord with established forms.

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Official.

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Relating to the form or structure of something.

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Relating to formation.

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Ceremonial.

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Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.

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Organized; well-structured and planned.

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(mathematics) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.

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