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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.

To make universal; to generalize. Coleridge.

In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.

The quality or state of being universal; universality.

Not salable; unmerchantable. -- n.

The ursine seal. See the Note under 1st Seal.

Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. Valsalvian experiment (Med.), the process of inflating the middle ear by closing the mouth and nostrils, and blowing so as to puff out the cheeks.

A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. "The vassals of his anger." Milton. Rear vassal, the vassal of a vassal; an arriere vassal.

The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.

A female vassal. [R.] Spenser.

The body of vassals. [R.]

Universal. [Obs. or Colloq.] Shak.

A sale made in washing. See Washing, n., 3, above.

Same as Wash sale.

Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. I. Watts.

, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

nal. [R.] It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor.

as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

ating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.