All; extending to or comprehending the whole number, quantity or space; as universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence. The universal cause acts not by partial, but by general laws.

Total; whole. From harmony, from heav’nly harmony, this universal frame began.

Comprising all the particulars; as universal kinds.

In botany, a universal umbel, is a primary or general umbel; the first or largest set of rays in a compound umbel; opposed to partial. A universal involucre is placed at the foot of a universal umbel. Universal instrument, is one which measures all kinds of distances, lengths; as the pantometer or holometer./ .& Universal dial, is a dial by which the hour may be found by the sun in any part of the world, or under any elevation of the pole.9Y Universal proposition.

In logic, a universal is complex or incomplex. A complex universal, is either a universal proposition, as “every whole is greater than its parts,” or whatever raises a manifold conception in the mind, as the definition of a reasonable animal. An incomplex universal, is what produces one conception only in the mind, and is a simple thing respecting many; as human nature, which relates to every individual in which it is found.

The whole; the general system of the universe. I .