regularity, a similitude or resemblance between the parts of a whole. Such is that we meet with in figures of many sides, and angles respectively equal, and answerable to each other. A late ingenious author makes beauty to consist in uniformity, joined or combined with variety. Where the uniformity is equal in two objects, the beauty, he contends, is as the variety; and where the variety is equal, the beauty is as the uniformity.

is particularly used for one and the same form of public prayers, and administration of sacraments, and other rites, &c. of the church of England, preferred by the famous Stat. 1 Eliz. and 13 and 14 Car. II. cap. 4. called the Act of Uniformity. See Liturgy.