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Universal
UNIVERS'AL, a. [L. universalis;unus and versor.]
1. All; extending to or comprehending the whole number, quantity or space; as universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence.
The universal cause acts not by partial, but by general laws.
2. Total; whole.
From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, this universal frame began.
3. Comprising all the particulars; as universal kinds.
4. In botany, a universal umbel, is a primary or general umbel; the first or largest set of rays in a compound umbel; opposed to partial. A universal involucre is placed at the foot of a universal umbel.
Universal instrument, is one which measures all kinds of distances, lengths, etc.; as the pantometer or holometer.
Universal dial, is a dial by which the hour may be found by the sun in any part of the world, or under any elevation of the pole.
Universal proposition. [See the noun.]
UNIVERS'AL, n. [See the adjective.]
1. In logic, a universal is complex or incomplex. A complex universal, is either a universal proposition, as "every whole is greater than its parts," or whatever raises a manifold conception in the mind, as the definition of a reasonable animal.
An incomplex universal, is what produces one conception only in the mind, and is a simple thing respecting many; as human nature, which relates to every individual in which it is found.
2. The whole; the general system of the universe. [Not in use.]
universal appears in definitions for these words:
A Alcahest Alchimy Algebra Alkahest Amyraldism Appellative Arbor Arminian Astrology Azoth Bolt-sprit Cantharis Catholic Catholicness Catholicon Ccatholicism Centurist Charity Church Common Concurrence Contraries Countenance Ecumenic Falsify Fill General Generally Generalness Genus Grasp Hermetic Hospitality Influenza Invigorate Kingdom Limitarian Maker Mood Omnipresence Omnipresential Omniscience Omniscient Panacea Pansophy Part Partial Pasigraphy Philanthropy Pilfering Plenty Positive Prejudge Pull Pyrrhonism Quantity Quill Redress Restoration Restrain Rod Scepticism Siss Snarl Specht Stale Stone Stun Swarthy Tend Testimony Theorem Tremor Uncharitable Universal Universality Universally Universalness University Velocity Versal World You
A Alcahest Alchimy Algebra Alkahest Amyraldism Appellative Arbor Arminian Astrology Azoth Bolt-sprit Cantharis Catholic Catholicness Catholicon Ccatholicism Centurist Charity Church Common Concurrence Contraries Countenance Ecumenic Falsify Fill General Generally Generalness Genus Grasp Hermetic Hospitality Influenza Invigorate Kingdom Limitarian Maker Mood Omnipresence Omnipresential Omniscience Omniscient Panacea Pansophy Part Partial Pasigraphy Philanthropy Pilfering Plenty Positive Prejudge Pull Pyrrhonism Quantity Quill Redress Restoration Restrain Rod Scepticism Siss Snarl Specht Stale Stone Stun Swarthy Tend Testimony Theorem Tremor Uncharitable Universal Universality Universally Universalness University Velocity Versal World You
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