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.