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Universal. [Obs. or Colloq.] Shak.

The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

Intended to reverse; implying reversal. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line. -- Trans*ver"sal*ly, adv.

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.

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

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

inary 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…