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variform, a.|ˈvɛərɪfɔːm|
Also 7 varie-form.
[f. L. vari-, stem of varius various a. + -form. Cf. It. variforme.]
Of various forms; varied or different in form; diversiform.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. Transl. Premonit., Because every thing in its Essence and Being is good, and that, because it is one, and true; but that which is double, varie-form, seeming, or false, that it sees to be evil. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne III. 499, I..find [it] very hard properly to design them [our actions] every one by themselves by a principal quality, so ambiguous and variform they are by several lights. 1836Fraser's Mag. XIII. 419 ‘What men call love’ is a variform thing. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 189 Among these variform buildings, strangely interspersed, are here and there huge masses of heavy foliage. 1860Muir Cockburn Pagan or Christian 39 It eventually becomes with its variform sculpture..a distinguishing peculiarity.
Hence ˈvariformly adv.
1891Clark Russell Curatica 129 Pat was called variformly Patrick, Paddy, Patsey, or Pat. |