U′ni‐ver″sal, n. 1. The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
Plato calleth God the cause and original, the nature and reason, of the universal. Sir W. Raleigh.
2. (Logic) (a) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it. (b) A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.