Emily Dickinson Lexicon

U-NI-VERS'AL, n. [See the Adjective.]

1. 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. Cyc.
2. The whole; the general system of the universe. [Not in use.]