Unify
['juːnɪfaɪ] or ['junɪfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) become one; 'Germany unified officially in 1990'; 'the cells merge'.
Editor: Priscilla--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.
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Definition
v.t. to make into one.—adjs. U′nifīable capable of being made one; Unif′ic making one.—ns. Unificā′tion; U′nifīer.
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Examples
- An education which should unify the disposition of the members of society would do much to unify society itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To Philip also Isocrates appealed as the great leader who should unify and ennoble the chaotic public life of Greece. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Men will unify only to intensify the search for knowledge and power, and live as ever for new occasions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Upon no part of Europe did the collapse of the idea of a unified Christendom bring more disastrous consequences than to Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their isolation, and consequently their purely arbitrary going together, is canceled; a unified developing situation takes its place. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Jews were already a people dispersed in many lands and cities, when their minds and hopes were unified and they became an exclusive people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The earth as the home of man is humanizing and unified; the earth viewed as a miscellany of facts is scattering and imaginatively inert. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Processes of instruction are unified in the degree in which they center in the production of good habits of thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So Greece, unified for a while by fear, gained her first victory over Persia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is the story of the failure to achieve the very noble and splendid idea of a unified and religious world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Against the unifying effort of Christendom and against the unifying influence of the mechanical revolution, catastrophe won. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here was the great world of men between India and the Adriatic ready for union, ready as it had never been before for a unifying control. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Both in England and on the Continent the ascendant rulers seized upon Christianity as a unifying force to cement their conquests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It grew by a kind of necessity through new concentrating and unifying forces that were steadily gathering power in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If Christianity was a rebellious and destructive force towards a pagan Rome, it was a unifying and organizing force within its own communion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Throughout this period there was no ruling unifying idea in men's minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is in his manifest understanding of the need of some unifying moral force if the empire was to hold together that his claim to originality lies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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