Definition of Universal

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Universal

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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Universal Quotations

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
Jonathan Swift

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
Ernest Holmes

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Universal Translations

universal in Dutch is algemeen, universeel
universal in French is universel
universal in Spanish is universalmente

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