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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 Cat. 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 Conv. Burghs I 437.
Twicheing the productioun of diligence done in the vniformety of mets and mesures 1655 Conv. Burghs III 403.
The which rule for wniformitie of measuris of wictuall and salt [etc.]