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Decisional Incapacity (health) and form(3) (iou)


Decisional Incapacity (health)


A condition in which a patient is unable to understand his or her choices or declare personal wishes about his or her care.





form(3) (iou)



form verb1. ME.
[Old French fourmer, (also mod.) former from Latin formare, from forma FORM noun.]
verb trans. Give form or shape to; Fashion, mould. ME.
Milton The Rib he formd and fashond with his hands.
b. verb trans. Formulate; state formally. ME-L17.
c. verb trans. Give a specified form to; Fashion into a certain shape, after, by, from, on, a pattern. ME.
C. McCullough A little silver brooch formed into the rising sun emblem.
d. verb trans. Express by form, embody. rare (Spenser). Only in L16.
e. verb intrans. Orig., agree in form, fit with. Later, take a (specified) shape, be shaped into. E18.
L. Stephen A ridge of rocky peaks, forming into two ridges about its centre.
f. verb trans. Electricity. Convert (a semiconductor device, the plates of a lead-acid accumulator, etc.) into a particular state by the application of a current or voltage. L19.
verb trans. Mould (a person, the mind, a faculty, etc.) by discipline, experience, or Education. ME.
A. Jessopp Rudely scrawled by some one whose hand is not yet formed. J. Bayley The inescapable burden of being formed by parents and by early traumas.
verb trans. Construct, frame, make, produce, (something); articulate (a word). ME.
M. Connelly A large rustic table formed by driving four stakes into the ground and placing planks on top. A. Carnegie We had before this formed a small debating club.
b. verb trans. Frame in the mind, conceive, (an idea, a judgement, etc.). Also (obsolete exc. dial.), imagine. L16.
G. Greene She was forming a plan. Q. Crisp I formed no positive opinion of him whatsoever.
c. verb intrans. Come into being. E19.
W. Bronk The stars..form and evolve,..explode in novae.
verb trans. Go to make up; compose. LME.
H. James The two houses together formed a single dwelling. Day Lewis The simple fishermen who formed the greater part of his congregation.
b. Serve as, constitute; be one or a part of. E19.
E. A. Freeman A realm of which Northumberland constitutionally formed a part. G. Vidal His statistics would form the basis of a report.
verb trans. Linguistics. Construct (a word) by derivation etc.; have (a case etc.) expressed by an inflection etc. LME.
Richard Morris The verbs of the strong conjugation form the past tense by a change of the root-vowel.
verb trans. Place in order, arrange; organize (persons or things) into a society, system, etc. LME.
J. R. Green The Clerks of the Royal Chapel were formed into a body of secretaries.
verb trans. & intrans. Military. Arrange or draw up or up in order; assume or take up an arrangement in a (specified) formation. E18.
C. C. Trench They formed in squadron column. I. Hay On the command 'form fours', odd numbers will stand fast.
verb trans. Develop or acquire (a habit); enter into or contract (a friendship, an alliance, etc.). M18.
J. Butler Active habits are to be formed by Exercise. T. Hardy I have never loved anybody..I have not even formed a strong friendship.