ˈuniformed, a.
[f. uniform n. 2 + -ed.]
Dressed in or wearing uniform. (Freq. c 1880–.) spec. of police officers: see uniform n. 4 b.
| 1813 Lady Lyttelton Corr. 12 Dec., Wednesday we dine at Count Romanzoff's—full-dressed, long-trained, uniformed. 1840 Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 53 A uniformed agent of the law. 1895 Meredith Amazing Marriage xliii, A foreign army or tag-rag of uniformed rascals. 1922 Rep. Tax Cases 1913–21 VII. 176 Detective officers receive the same rates of pay as uniformed officers. 1945 Law Rep. King's Bench Div. 420 When they saw the uniformed officer they hurried in the opposite direction. 1973 ‘E. Peters’ City of Gold & Shadows v. 81 Sergeant Comstock, of the uniformed branch..came from a long line of native fishermen. |
| fig. and transf. 1864 Lowell Fireside Trav. 154 We..come out uniformed..with habits of thinking and doing cut on one pattern. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 3 Mar. 176/1 The book is handsomely uniformed in Confederate gray. |