Definition for U-NIV'O-CAL

U-NIV'O-CAL, a. [L. unus, one, and vox, word.]

  1. Having one meaning only. A univocal word is opposed to an equivocal, which has two or more significations. Watts.
  2. Having unison of sounds; as the octave in music and its replicates. Rousseau.
  3. Certain; regular; pursuing always one tenor. [Little used.] Brown.

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