1. (Theol.) One who believes in Universalism; one of a denomination of
Christians holding this faith.
2. One who affects to understand all the particulars in statements or
propositions. [Obs.] Bentley.
U`ni*ver"sal*ist (?), a. Of or pertaining to Unversalists of their
doctrines.
U`ni*ver`sal*is"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the whole; universal.
U`ni*ver*sal"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Universalties (#). [Cf. F.
universalité.] 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.
U`ni*ver"sal*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Universalized (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Universalizing (?).] [Cf. F. universaliser.] To make universal;
to generalize. Coleridge.
U`ni*ver"sal*ly, adv. In a universal manner; without exception; as,
God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
U`ni*ver"sal*ness, n. The quality or state of being universal;
universality.
U"ni*verse (?), n. [L. universum, from universus universal; unus one +
vertere, versum, to turn, that is, turned into one, combined into one
whole; cf. F. univers. See One, and Verse.] All created things viewed
as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of
phenomena; the &?; &?; of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the
world; creation.
How may I Adore thee, Author of this universe And all this good to man!
Milton.
U`ni*ver"si*ty (?), n.; pl. Universities (#). [OE. universite, L.
universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons
associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. universus all
together, universal: cf. F. université. See Universe.] 1. The universe;
the whole. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of
having and acquiring property. [Obs.]
The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous.
There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and
others.
Eng. Cyc.
3. An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of
imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting
education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc.,
empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in
theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without
having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one
college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in
any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and
other branches of learning.
The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part
of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of
churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those
universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either
theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology.
A. Smith.
From the Roman words universitas, collegium, corpus, are derived the
terms university, college, and corporation, of modern languages; and
though these words have obtained modified significations in modern
times, so as to be indifferently applicable to the same things, they
all agree in retaining the fundamental signification of the terms,
whatever may have been added to them. There is now no university,
college, or corporation, which is not a juristical person in the sense
above explained [see def. 2, above]; wherever these words are applied
to any association of persons not stamped with this mark, it is an
abuse of terms. Eng. Cyc.
U`ni*ver`so*log"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to universology.
U`ni*ver*sol"o*gist (?), n. One who is versed in universology.
U`ni*ver*sol"o*gy (?), n. [Universe + -logy.] The science of the
universe, and the relations which it involves.
U*niv"o*ca*cy (?), n. The quality or state of being univocal. [R.] Sir
T. Browne.
U*niv"o*cal (?), a. [L. univocus; unus one + vox, vocis, a voice, word.
See One, and Voice.] 1. Having one meaning only; — contrasted with
equivocal.