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(Uniformité,) Uniformet(i)e, -ety, -itie, n. Also: uni-, unyformyté, wniformitie. [Late ME and e.m.E. vniformite (1432-50), unyformytie (1549), vniformitie (1560), vniformity (1611).]

1. Complete agreement; conformity one to another. 1513 Doug. ix iv 40.
To thir twa was a will in vnyte, A lust and mynd in vniformyte [Sm. vniformete, Ruddim. unyformyte]

2. Conformity to one agreed method or approach, or an instance of this. 1551 Hamilton Catechism 4.
The apostil exhortis his Corinthianis and … us all to keip uniformitie and concord in setting furth to the people the doctrine of our Christian faith [saying] ‘All ȝe say ane thing' 1562-3 Winȝet I 98/4.
To communicat with the preist sacramentalie … and that vndir bayth the kyndes, gif it sall pleis the vniuersall kirk to keip that vniformitie 1562-3 Winȝet I 134/29.
Excommunicatit, as schismatikis nocht keipand ane vniformitie with the rest 1571 Reg. Privy C. II 90.
Order may be takin for … reducing of thingis disorderit to a perfite rule and uniformitie 1605 Melvill 596.
That thai mycht entir in pice and uniformitie, keipeing the unitie of faith c1650 Spalding II 34.
The lower houss [sc. of Commons] met in a committe-way anent the article of the vniformetie [marg. vniformety] of religioun, givin in by the Scottis commissioneris 1663 Alford Rec. 27.
That evrie minister shall labor to perswade the people to uniformitie and canonicall obedience

b. specif. Of weights and measures: Standardising; subjection to a common standard. 1594 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I 437.
Twicheing the productioun of diligence done in the vniformety of mets and mesures 1655 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs III 403.
The which rule for wniformitie of measuris of wictuall and salt [etc.]