Formed vs Forme - What's the difference?
formed | forme |
(rare, or, archaic)
(historical, printing) One side of a sheet, comprising four quarto pages or two folio pages.
* 1978 , David A. Bloestein, Introduction'', , David A. Bloestein (editor), ''Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn ,
* 1994 , Jay L. Halio, Introduction'', Jay L. Halio (editor), , ''The First Quarto of King Lear ,
* 2011 , Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text ,
As a verb formed
is past tense of form.As a noun forme is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.forme
English
Noun
(en noun)page 47,
- Both these formes , with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2.
page 21,
- Q2 was printed in twenty-two formes .
page 41,
- In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme' and another. (A '''forme''' is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because '''formes''' do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto ' forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.