formulate

Verb

1. To put into a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
   • He failed to formulate his ideas more clearly.
   • The Assembly then formulated its demands, which were thirty in number, including the removal of all Huguenot temples built near churches - 1876, George Perkins Marsh, Mediaeval and Modern Saints and Miracles:
   • Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like comed,...