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1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. H7^v Can souls that be thus universalis'd, Begot into the life of God e're die?

1664 H. More Apol. 552 I do not speak of the English Church,..but of..the Reformed Churches in General—so Universalized were my thoughts in that Meditation.

1768 J. Cleland Specimen Etimol. Vocab. Antient Celtic 50 Then began to be in force, and universalized, that absurd and impious tenet of religious celebacy.

1783 J. Bennett Divine Revelation 182 The godlike charitable purpose of universalizing its directions, that every individual..may be of equal privileges to ourselves.

1840 L. Hunt Seer 73/1 Their ideal of a face, let them try to universalise it as they can, is a French one.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. iii. 463 The conception by the senses is confused,..till abstracted, analysed, at once universalised and individualised by the intelligence.

1871 A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley iii. 77 We cannot even perceive without universalizing.

1916 Philos. Rev. 25 634 The poet creates symbols; he universalizes the facts of his personal experience.

1952 R. I. Aaron Theory of Universals ii. 20 It might be argued that what Hobbes was attacking..was imagism rather than conceptualism, the notion that there must be an image before us whenever we universalize.

1997 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 Dec. k7 Make it a story that could have been told anywhere. Try to universalize it.

1676 Princ. Chymists London 59 Salts distilled from the Soots of Chymnies, arising from different Woods, notwithstanding their Alteration by the Ambient Air, and their being (by that Medium) in some measure Universallized.

1799 C. B. Brown Edgar Huntly II. xiii. 58 His earliest creeds, tended to efface the impressions of his education; to deify necessity and universalize matter; to destroy the popular distinctions between soul and body.

1748 D. W. Linden Treat. Chalybeat Waters iv. 132 I discovered two or three Springs of excellent Chalybeat Waters, which if compassed, and collected into proper Recevoirs, would, doubtless, more universalize this greatest Gift of Nature.

1809 Crit. Rev. 16 499 He must universalize in his empire the given religion which he prefers.

a1832 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 603/1 To universalize the system of Plato.

1891 F. C. S. Schiller Riddles of Sphinx 183 If the law of evolution could be really and completely universalized.

1911 Times 21 Apr. 16/2 Sir G. Fleetwood Wilson announced the decision of the Government to universalize the 100 rupee Government note.

1998 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts (Nexis) 15 June In order to universalize primary education, we are preparing a law for compulsory primary education.

1757 M. Postlethwayt Britain's Commerc. Interest I. xi. 272 If England shall be once enabled to effectuate this, she will be capable of extending her traffic, and more universalizing the same over the whole world.

1813 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 186 To complete and universalize the desolation of the globe.

1875 W. R. Greg Misc. Ess. (1882) vi. 144 Our sewerage system shall be universalized and perfected.

2001 Asia Pulse (Nexis) 5 Jan. With the technology for increasing the per acre yields of Basmati three-folds and of IRRI two folds already proven, the challenge before the government was to universalize its use all over the rice-growing areas of Pakistan.

1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 179 A free divine universalized spirit is worth all.

1720 J. Lawrence Christian Prudence vii. 114 One would not expect such an ill Weed should spring up in a christian Soil, which is made up of universalized Love and Charity.

1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 169 The fourth gospel is essentially a universalised Judaism.

1911 S. Nearing Social Adjustm. i. 16 The social economist..urges the social necessity of universalized opportunity, not as a Utopist, but as a scientist.

1990 Amer. Hist. Rev. 95 359 Rome symbolizes..a uniquely spiritual city through which a universalized Christianity had in effect restored the universality of the Roman empire.

1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix Index sig. O Of the Philosophy of Des-Cartes, how far above all other naturall Philosophyes, and yet how short of that noble, divine, universalizing Spirit in Christianity and Platonisme.

1811 J. Bentham Let. in Wks. (1843) XI. 161/2 An engine for the universalising of Protestantism.

1836 G. S. Faber Primitive Doctr. Election ii. vi. 306 The attentive reader..will readily perceive their palpably universalising tenor.

1891 F. C. S. Schiller Riddles of Sphinx 183 The first case will evidently not bear universalizing.

1919 S. Angus Environm. Early Christianity iii. 63 The Greek..proved by his culture and language one of the greatest universalising powers.

1974 Sociol. Anal. 35 107 Cities represented a major step in the transition of political community from tribal and kinship polities to modern territorial communities with a universalizing rule of law.

1990 J. Bradshaw Homecoming x. 196 You can champion your child by confronting and correcting his universalizing.

1854 E. G. Holland Mem. J. Badger (ed. 3) xviii. 372 The active theological minds..may fall under two general classifications which..we may call the centralizers and universalizers.

1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 May 60/3 Modernism was the great universalizer.