[f. the adj. or sb. Cf. Sp. and Pg. uniformar, It. uniformarsi.]
1. trans. To make conformable to.
In a parody of pedantic language.
a. 1586. Sidney, Wanstead Play, in Arcadia (1629), 622. Thus must I vniform my speech to your obtuse conceptions.
2. To make or render (a number of persons or things) uniform or alike; to bring or reduce to uniformity.
In later quots. with suggestion of sense 3.
c. 1681. Hickeringill, Trimmer, ii. Wks. 1716, I. 372. Well uniform you all, and make you all alike.
1708. T. Ward, Eng. Ref., I. (1710), 64. To Uniform the Multitude In Prayer, and joyn the jarring crowd.
1870. Lowell, Study Wind. (1871), 258. The more than Protean travesties which words underwent before they were uniformed by Johnson and Walker.
1887. Harpers Mag., July, 280. It is a human device to uniform people into friends and enemies.
3. To dress in, put into, uniform. Cf. UNIFORMED a., UNIFORMING vbl. sb.
1894. Outing, XXIV. 78/2. Hull persisted in uniforming the militia after his own sweet will.