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ˈuniformly, adv.
Also 6–7 vni-, 7 uniformely.
[f. uniform a. + -ly2.]
In a uniform manner; with uniformity.
1. With or in conformity to one form or standard on the part of several; in the same way as others or another; without diversity of one from another.
In later use merging into sense 3, from which it is not always clearly distinct.
1549W. Thomas Hist. Italy 74 b, The one syde [of the street] is built of harde stone, all vniformely with faire glasen wyndowes. 1559Bp. C. Scot in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. ii. App. x. 27 Common prayers, and the holie sacraments uniformly mynystred. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 182 The houses are vniformely, and very fairely built of free-stone. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. vii. 360 A hundred..were uniformly drest in the regimentals of the marines. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre v, They were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks.
2. With uniformity in degree, quantity, or extent; in or with the same relative proportion; equally, equably.
1577Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 156 They giue it gentle heats..till it be drie, and in the meane while they turne it often, that it may be vniformelie dried. 1609Douland Ornithoparcus' Microl. 78 A Consonance is a mixture of two Sounds falling into the eares vniformely. 1656Hobbes Six Lessons Wks. 1845 VII. 282 Two movents, one uniform, the other uniformly accelerated. 1743W. Emerson Fluxions 109 The Space..would be uniformly discribed in a given Time. 1773Cook First Voyage iii. vi. III. 632 Their skins were so uniformly covered with dirt, that it was very difficult to ascertain their true colour. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 654 It is advisable to make the soil uniformly deep in every part. 1869Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 244 If..the plate be wedge-shaped, thickening gradually and uniformly from edge to back.
3. In a manner that is always the same; without variation or alteration; at all times or in every case alike; invariably.
1682Norris Hierocles 11 By Law is understood the power of God as it always acts uniformly. 1736Butler Anal. i. ii. Wks. 1874 I. 38 We find the consequences, which we were beforehand informed of, uniformly to follow. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xiii. I. 375 The calm dignity which he uniformly affected. 1825Scott Talism. xxvi, When once noticed, it uniformly made a strong impression on the spectator. 1863E. V. Neale Anal. Th. & Nat. 249 The judgments of our propositions are uniformly made by the verb ‘to be’. 1891Law Times XCII. 124/1 Since 1846 the Chancellorship has been uniformly held by Irish barristers.
b. Qualifying adjectives or adverbs.
1769Robertson Chas. V, xi. Wks. 1813 III. 329 An administration uniformly equitable and moderate. 1827J. Ivimey Pilgr. 19th Cent. iii. 59 ‘Was he uniformly successful in trade?’.. ‘I cannot say that he was always successful; he was uniformly honourable.’ 1842J. Wilson Chr. North I. 245 Life has gone uniformly well with him. 1898‘Merriman’ Roden's Corner x, The result has been uniformly satisfactory. |