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ing to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function. The entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum. Clausius.

Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe. The whole vast fabric of society. Macaulay.

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned. Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate. Milton. Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlast…

The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv. 24.

ree or relative position in an order or series. The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor.

nt parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.

The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.

The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. "The imperishability of the universe." Milman.

vegetable kingdoms." Locke. Animal kingdom. See under Animal. -- Kingdom of God. (a) The universe. (b) That spiritual realm of which God is the acknowledged sovereign. (c) The authority or dominion of God. -- Mineral kingdom. See under Mineral. -- United Kingdom. See under United. -- Vegetable kingdom. See under Ve…

their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible modes of existence in the universe. J. S. Mill.

The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.

tual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies. The material elements of the universe. Whewell.

That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.

and operated by interaction of forces without a directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.

A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm. Shak.

laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed. They considered not the miracle of the loaves. Mark vi. 52.

Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism. Dana. Haeckel.

existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay.

nified; divine vengeance. This is that ancient doctrine of nemesis who keeps watch in the universe, and lets no offense go unchastised. Emerson.