universal
Speech parts
1. universal - Noun
2. universal - Adjective
3. universal - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.
Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.
Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.
The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.
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Examples
Let all partake of the feast of faith. Let all receive the riches of goodness. Let no one lament their poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let no one mourn their transgressions, for pardon has dawned from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the Saviour's death has set us free.
The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.