general

Definition

Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.

Etymology

From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin generālis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -ālis (“-al”); thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, generic.

Example Sentences

• "It is generall / To be mortall: / I haue well espyde / No man may hym hyde / From Deth holow eyed […]."
• ""Among us!" was the general shout, and Peppersorn sat frozen to his chair."
• "That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]"