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adj. 1. (Psychol.) intermediate between introversive and extroversive. Contrasted to introversive and extroversive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. Annually. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anniversarius; annus year + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. anniversaire. ] Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. --
Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [ Eastern U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Anniversaries [ Cf. F. anniversaire. ] 1. The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. anni versus the turning of a year. ] Anniversary. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cleavers. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } an anniversary celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the event commemorated. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ F. divers, L. diversus turned in different directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. Diverse. ] 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divers of Antonio's creditors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Divers is now limited to the plural; as, divers ways (not divers way). Besides plurality it ordinarily implies variety of kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ The same word as divers. See Divers. ] 1. Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of various forms; multiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In different directions; diversely. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To turn aside. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In different ways; differently; variously. “Diversely interpreted.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

How diversely love doth his pageants play. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In different directions; to different points. [ 1913 Webster ]

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being diverse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Diversify. ] 1. The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. Adventurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, diversifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. diversus diverse + -form. ] Of a different form; of varied forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Diversified p. pr. & vb. n. Diversifying. ] [ F. diversifier, LL. diversificare, fr. L. diversus diverse + ficare (in comp.), akin to facere to make. See Diverse. ] To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. diversus diverse + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to speak. ] Speaking in different ways. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. diversion. See Divert. ] 1. The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth. “Public diversions.” V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.

Syn. -- Amusement; entertainment; pastime; recreation; sport; game; play; solace; merriment. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. likely or designed to confuse or deceive; -- of tactics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Diversities [ F. diversité, L. diversitas, fr. diversus. See Diverse. ] 1. A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety. “Diversity of sounds.” Shak. “Diversities of opinion.” Secker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Variegation. “Bright diversities of day.” Pope.

Syn. -- See Variety. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. diversus diverse + volens, -entis, p. pr. of velle to wish. ] Desiring different things. [ Obs. ] Webster (White Devil). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. diversorium, deversorium, an inn or lodging. ] A wayside inn. [ Obs. or R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Multi- + L. versans, p. pr. See Versant. ] Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or office of a receiver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The side or bank of a river. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To diversify aggain what is already diversified. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. tergiversatus, p. p. of tergiversari to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere to turn. See Verse. ] To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation. ] 1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. [ 1913 Webster ]

The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. universalis: cf. F. universel, OF. also universal. See Universe. ] 1. 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. “Anointed universal King.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The universal cause
Acts not by partial, but by general laws. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

This universal frame began. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Universal and its derivatives are used in common discourse for general and its derivatives. See General. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

At which the universal host up dent
A shout that tore Hell's concave. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Logic) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Universal chuck (Mach.), a chuck, as for a lathe, having jaws which can be moved simultaneously so as to grasp objects of various sizes. --
Universal church, the whole church of God in the world; the catholic church. See the Note under Catholic, a., 1. --
Universal coupling. (Mach.) Same as Universal joint, below. --
Universal dial, a dial by which the hour may be found in any part of the world, or under any elevation of the pole. --
Universal instrument (Astron.), a species of altitude and azimuth instrument, the peculiarity of which is, that the object end of the telescope is placed at right angles to the eye end, with a prism of total reflection at the angle, and the eye end constitutes a portion of the horizontal axis of the instrument, having the eyepiece at the pivot and in the center of the altitude circle, so that the eye has convenient access to both at the same time. --
Universal joint (Mach.), a contrivance used for joining two shafts or parts of a machine endwise, so that the one may give rotary motion to the other when forming an angle with it, or may move freely in all directions with respect to the other, as by means of a cross connecting the forked ends of the two shafts (Fig. 1). Since this joint can not act when the angle of the shafts is less than 140°, a double joint of the same kind is sometimes used for giving rotary motion at angles less than 140° (Fig. 2). --
Universal umbel (Bot.), a primary or general umbel; the first or largest set of rays in a compound umbel; -- opposed to partial umbel. A universal involucre is not unfrequently placed at the foot of a universal umbel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- General; all; whole; total. See General. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Plato calleth God the cause and original, the nature and reason, of the universal. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) a person belonging to the O blood group (of the ABO classification), who can safely donate blood to anyone. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Linguistics) the principles forming the basis for the human ability to understand language. [ PJC ]

2. (Linguistics) the general properties and constraints common to all human languages; also, the study of such principles. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Universalism; Universalist. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. universalisme. ] (Theol.) The doctrine or belief that all men will be saved, or made happy, in the future state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. universaliste. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Theol.) One who believes in Universalism; one of a denomination of Christians holding this faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who affects to understand all the particulars in statements or propositions. [ Obs. ] Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Unversalists of their doctrines. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the whole; universal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Universalties [ Cf. F. universalité. ] The quality or state of being universal; unlimited extension or application; generality; -- distinguished from particularity; as, the unversality of a proposition; the unversality of sin; the unversality of the Deluge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Universalized p. pr. & vb. n. Universalizing ] [ Cf. F. universaliser. ] To make universal; to generalize. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being universal; universality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. universum, from universus universal; unus one + vertere, versum, to turn, that is, turned into one, combined into one whole; cf. F. univers. See One, and Verse. ] All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the to~ pa^n of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation. [ 1913 Webster ]

How may I
Adore thee, Author of this universe
And all this good to man! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]