unity, unite, unitee, unitie, unyte

[Fr. unité, from Lat. unitatem, acc us. of uni tas, from unus one.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The state or condition of being one; onene , singlene , as opposed to plurality. "The unity of God is a true and real, not figurative unity." -Clarke: On the Attributes , prop. 3. 2. Concord, agreement, harmony; onene of sen timent, affection, or the like. "How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ."- Psalm cxxxiii. 1. 3. Uniformity, harmony, agreement. "To the avoiding of di ention it availeth much that there be among them an unity as well in ceremonies as in doctrine." - Hooker. At unity: Atone; in accord. "The King and the Commons were now at unity."_ Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xi. 4. The principle by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation is preserved in literary and dramatic compositions; conformity in a composition to such principle; a reference to some one purpose or leading idea in all the parts of a discourse or composition. In the Greek drama the three unities required were those of action , of time , and of place . This so-called Aristo tel i an law of unity required that there should be no shifting of the scene from place to place, that the whole series of events should be such as might occur within the space of a single day, and that nothing should be admitted irrelevant to the development of the single plot. "The unities of time, place, and action are exactly observed." -Dryden: All for Love. (Pref.) *5. A gold coin of the reign of James I. [UNITE, s., 2.] II. Technically : 1. Art : That proper balance of composition or sholl is said to be discoidal, as in Plan orb is (q. v.); but, in most cases, they are wound obliquely round the axis, and the shell is termed turreted, trochoid, or tur binated, fusiform, . The animal withdraws into its shell by a retractile muscle, which pa es into the foot or is attached to the oper--culum, its scar or imbw pre ion being placed... in the Spiral Uni valves, upon the columella. In the Marine Univalves two important variations exist in the form of the mouth of the shell. In one group, the Holostoma ta (q. v.), it is unbrok en and entire, and these animals live for the most part on vege IMG:content-0167.jpg:[subsumed][merged small][graphic][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][subsumed][ocr errors][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed][ocr errors][merged small] table food; in the other (Shell of the genus Triton.) group, the Siphonos tomata (q. v.), which are mainly carnivorous, the aperture of the shell is notched in front. The sheli figured is fusiform; the apix (A) mammillated; the whorls ( w ) ventricose, strongly ribbed or corrugated, with discontinuous varices ( v ), and distinct sutures ( su ); the columella ( i ) is denticulated; the outer lip ( o ) is internally plica to-dentate; the body whorls ( bw ) are large, and the aperture (a) ovately elliptical; a cand pe pe mark the anterior and posterior canals respectively. "This cla [Gasteropod a) includes all those molluscou cous animals which are known as Univalves , such as Land-snails, Sea-snails, Whelks, Limpets, ."- Nichol son: Palæont., ii. 1. ū-ni-vălved, a . [Pref. uni- , and Eng. valved .] Having only one valve; univalve; univalvular. u-ni-văl-vu-lar, a . [Pref. uni- , and Eng. val vular .] Having but a single valve; univalve. ū-ni-ver-sal, *u-ni-ver-sall, a . & s. [French universel, from Lat. universal is pertaining to the whole, from universum =the whole, prop. neut. sing. of uni versus combined into a whole: unus = one, and versus , pa. par. of ver to =to turn; O. Fr., Sp., & Port. universal .] A. As adjective: I. Ordinary Language: 1. General; pertaining or extending to or comprehending the whole number, quantity, or space; pertaining to or pervading the whole; all-embracing, color in a work of art which produces a perfectly all-reaching. harmonious effect, and to which all the parts of the work conduce. 2. Law : (1) (See extract.) " Unity of po e ion is a joint po e ion of two rights by several titles. For example, I take a lease of land from one upon a certain rent; afterward I buy the fee simple. This is an unity of po e ion, whereby the lease is extinguished; by reason that I, who had before the occupation only for my rent, am become lord of the same, and am to pay my rent to none."- Cowel . (2) The holding of the same estate in undivided shares by two or more; joint tenancy. 3. Math .: An entire collection considered as a single thing. Thus, 20 feet, considered as a single distance, is unity; 1 foot is the unit of the expre ion. The number 1, when unconnected with anything else, is generally called unity . u-niv-a-lent, a. [Pref. uni-, and Lat. valens, pr. par. of valeo =to be worth.] Chem.: Equivalent to one unit of any standard, specially to one atom of hydrogen. [MONAD, II.1.] u-ni-valve, a. & s. [Pref. uni- , and Eng. valve .] A. As adj .: Having only one valve, as a shell or pericarp. B. As substantive: Zool .: A popular name for any of the Gasteropod a (q. v.) inclosed in a univalve shell, which may be regarded e entially as a cone, the apex of which is more or le oblique. In the simplest form the conical shape is retained without any alteration, as is the case with the common limpet. In the majority of instances univalves have the conical shell considerably elongated, so as to form a tube, which may retain this shape, but is usually coiled up into a spiral, and this latter form may be regarded as the typical shell of the Gasteropod a. In some (as in Vermetus) the coils or whorls are hardly in contact, but more commonly they are so amalgamated that the inner side of each convolution is formed by the preexisting whorl. When the whorls are "And there is an universal obligation upon all men to obey them."-Leighton: Com. on 1 Peter ii. 2. Constituted or considered as a whole entire; whole, total. "Sole monarch of the universal earth." Shakesp .: Romeo and Juliet , iii. 2. 3. Comprising all the particulars; general. "From things particular She doth abstract the universal kinds." Davies: Immort. of the Soul. II. Logic : Comprising particulars, or all the particulars. "The appellations that be universal , and common to many things, are not always given to all the particulars." -Hobbes: Human Nature , ch. v. B. As substantive : *I. Ord. Lang.: The whole; the system of the universe. "To what end had the angel been set to keep the entrance into paradise after Adam's expulsion, if the unt versal had been paradise?"- Raleigh : Hist. of the World. II. Technically : 1. Logic : A universal proposition (q. v.). "As for singular propositions (viz., those whose subject is either a proper name, or a common term with a singular sign) they are reckoned as Universals , because in them we speak of the whole of a subject." - Whately: Logic , bk. ii., ch. ii., § 2. 2. Philosophy ( pl . ): Universal concepts; general notions or ideas predicable of many; concepts embracing that which by its nature has a fitne or capacity to be in many. (1) Platonic ideas; archetypal forms existing in the divine mind, and forming the pattern according to which each individual of kind has been created. These have been called also Metaphysical, or, in the language of the Schools, universal i a ante rem. (2) Certain common natures, which, one in themselves, are diffused among or shared in by many; as rationality, which is common to all men. These are called Physical Universals, or universal i a in re. [NOMINALISM, REALISM, 3.] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, (3) General notions framed by the intellect and predicable of many things on the ground of their po e ing common properties, e . g . , animal, which may be predicated of a man, a lion, a bird, a fish, . These are Logical Universals, or universal i a post rem . †(4) The predicables. [PREDICABLE.] "Abelard was silent until the question of Universals was brought forward, and then suddenly changing from a disciple to an antagonist, he hara ed the old man with such rapidity and unexpectedne of a ault that William [of Champeaux] confe ed himself defeated and retracted his opinion."-G. H. Lewes: Hist. Philos . (ed. 1880), ii. 16. For the difference between universal and general, see GENERAL.