Universal(a.) Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.
Universal(a.) Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.
Universal(a.) Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
Universal(a.) Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.
Universal(n.) The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
Universal(n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
Universal(n.) A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.
Universalism(n.) The doctrine or belief that all men will be saved, or made happy, in the future state.
Universality(n.) The quality or state of being universal; unlimited extension or application; generality; -- distinguished from particularity; as, the unversality of a proposition; the unversality of sin; the unversality of the Deluge.
Universalize(v. t.) To make universal; to generalize.
Universalized(imp. & p. p.) of Universalize
Universalizing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Universalize
Universally(adv.) In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
Universalness(n.) The quality or state of being universal; universality.
Universe(n.) All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the / / of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.
Universities(pl. ) of University
University(n.) The universe; the whole.
University(n.) An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
University(n.) An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning.
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