UNIVERSAL

Definitions

1. 1. The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe. [Obs.] Plato calleth God the cause and original, the nature and reason, of the universal. Sir W. Raleigh.
2. 2. A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
3. 3. A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.