[f. the adj. or sb. Cf. Sp. and Pg. uniformar, It. uniformarsi.]

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  1.  trans. To make conformable to.

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  In a parody of pedantic language.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Wanstead Play, in Arcadia (1629), 622. Thus must I vniform my speech to your obtuse conceptions.

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  2.  To make or render (a number of persons or things) uniform or alike; to bring or reduce to uniformity.

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  In later quots. with suggestion of sense 3.

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c. 1681.  Hickeringill, Trimmer, ii. Wks. 1716, I. 372. We’ll uniform you all, and make you all alike.

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1708.  T. Ward, Eng. Ref., I. (1710), 64. To … Uniform the Multitude In Prayer, and joyn the jarring crowd.

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1870.  Lowell, Study Wind. (1871), 258. The more than Protean travesties which words underwent before they were uniformed by Johnson and Walker.

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1887.  Harper’s Mag., July, 280. It is a human device to uniform people into friends and enemies.

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  3.  To dress in, put into, uniform. Cf. UNIFORMED a., UNIFORMING vbl. sb.

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1894.  Outing, XXIV. 78/2. Hull persisted in uniforming the militia after his own sweet will.

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