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Open attestation; profession. [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne Universal reproach. Milton.

To perform eminently, or better than before. From endeavoring universally to top their parts, they will go universally beyond them. Jeffrey.

vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old. He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints. Harvey.

thin the group. Since the time of Cuvier and Baer . . . the whole animal kingdom has been universally held to be divisible into a small number of main divisions or types. Haeckel.

all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. Coleridge.

To throw into uproar or confusion. [Obs.] "Uproar the universal peace." Shak.

To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn. When horror universal shall descend, And heaven's dark concave urn all human race. Young.

e highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value. M'Culloch. Value is the power to command commodities generally. A. L. Chapin (Johnson's Cys.). Value is the generic term which expresses power in exchange. F. A. Walk…

Universal. [Obs. or Colloq.] Shak.

iii. 14. We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge. T. Burnet. Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence. Milton.

Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] Chaucer. "A world devote to universal wrack." Milton. wrack and ruin

bstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.