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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Univocal

U-niv'o-cal, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. univocus, from unus, one, and vox, vocis, a voice, word; It. & Sp. univoco, Fr. univoque.] 1. Having one meaning only. A univocal word is opposed to an equivocal, which has two or more significations.

  1. Having unison of sound, as the octave in music, and its replicates.
  2. Pursuing always one tenor; certain; regular. [Rare.] Browne.

U-nĭv'o-cal, n.

noun

n. (Aristotelian Logic.)

  1. A generic term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces.
  2. A word having but one meaning.