- Formal - Official (dress) - Real income (anag) - Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual;
according to the forms of established rites. - Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense
ceremonious is now preferred.] - A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or
established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the
courts of princes; outward form. - The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic
church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on
solemn occasions.