a. 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.
1662. J. 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.
1685. Cotton, trans. 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.
1836. Fraser’s Mag., XIII. 419. ‘What men call love’ is a variform thing.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 189. Among these variform buildings, strangely interspersed, are here and there huge masses of heavy foliage.
1860. Muir Cockburn, Pagan or Christian, 39. It eventually becomes with its variform sculpture … a distinguishing peculiarity.
Hence Variformly adv.
1891. W. Clark Russell, Curatica, 129. Pat was called variformly Patrick, Paddy, Patsey, or Pat.
