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  • Universal; whole.

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  • adjective Obs. or Colloq. Universal.

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  • noun typography, calligraphy Ornamental letter that begins a section
  • adjective obsolete Universal

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Examples

  • Inner looks upon the gears of the character's mind are not nearly as much fun as, for instance, betrayals in a multi-versal battle at the end of time.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Inner looks upon the gears of the character's mind are not nearly as much fun as, for instance, betrayals in a multi-versal battle at the end of time.

    On Writing: "Araby" Problems... 2008

  • I conceive mining to be the noblest business in the ‘versal world.’

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • I danced along the Phoorn's back while above me the branches of the great multi-versal tree stretched out forever, damaged but not yet destroyed.

    The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

  • Certainly by attacking Colin they'd achieved the same impact and national coverage, but i would have thought it was too obviously slanted at one person to have had much tmi-versal effect.

    Rat Race Francis, Dick 1970

  • Descartes too had drawn his inspiration for a uni - versal method for the sciences from the study of math - ematics, but what he saw as significant was not, as with

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT McRAE 1968

  • At this point, Burckhardt introduced his seminal idea of the development of the individual, and of the uni - versal man.

    UNIVERSAL MAN JOAN KELLY GADOL 1968

  • Yet it is precisely because these charac - teristics are rarely realized today that the idea of uni - versal man attracts (and deserves) attention.

    UNIVERSAL MAN JOAN KELLY GADOL 1968

  • In short, the monad was the keystone of Bruno's all-embracing uni - versal scheme.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968

  • For Bacon first philosophy is a uni - versal science, “the mother of the rest,” and prior to all divisions by subject matter (De augmentis scien - tiarum, Book III, Ch. I, Works, VIII, 471).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT McRAE 1968

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