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he whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice. "Anointed universal King." Milton. The universal cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws. Pope. This universal frame began. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to Universalism; Universalist. [R.]

The doctrine or belief that all men will be saved, or made happy, in the future state.

One who believes in Universalism; one of a denomination of Christians holding this faith.

Of or pertaining to the whole; universal.

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.

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

loodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

maginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. -- Al`ka*hes"tic, a.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

ommon name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, La…

ce of numbers to problems in civil government, political economy, and social science. -- Universal arithmetic, the name given by Sir Isaac Newton to algebra.

The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms. The arming was now universal. Macaulay.

The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

The universal remedy of Paracelsus.