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General

adjective

Applying to all or most members of a category or group. "General assistance" , "A general rule" , "In general terms" , "Comprehensible to the general reader"

Not specialized or limited to one class of things. "General knowledge"

Prevailing among and common to the general public.

Affecting the entire body. "General symptoms"

Somewhat indefinite. "A general description of the merchandise"

Of worldwide scope or applicability. Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide. "The shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time" , "Universal experience"

noun

A general officer of the highest rank. Synonym: full general.

The head of a religious order or congregation. Synonym: superior general.

A fact about the whole (as opposed to particular).

verb

(past generalled; past part. generalled or generaled; pres. part. generalling or generaling)

Command as a general.

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... society became at last necessary to him, and so thoroughly did they succeed in gaining his confidence that they finally experienced little difficulty in persuading him to be present at a review of the light cavalry of the Duc de Vendome, of which he was the colonel-general, and which was about to take place in a little plain between Clermont and Nonant. He accordingly proceeded to the spot with only two attendants, and he was no sooner seen approaching than M. de ...

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... wandered back to the Tsar and his million, and he pictured to himself the awful part that a fleet of air-ships such as his would play in the general European war that people said could not now be put off for many months longer. As he thought of this the vision grew in distinctness, and he saw them hovering over armies and cities and fortresses, and raining irresistible ...

— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith

... "perhaps destroyed, or disdained to preserve, the fame of Arian conquests to a common Christianity." "It was a surprising spectacle," says he, "to behold the Teutonic nations melting gradually into the general mass of Christian worshippers. In every other respect they were still distinct races. The conquering Ostrogoth or Visigoth, the Vandal, the Burgundian, the Frank, stood apart from the subjugated Roman population, as an armed or territorial aristocracy. They maintain, in ...

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... matter because he does not grasp how his attainment of some intrinsic good depends upon active concern with what is presented. In such cases, it is obviously the part of wisdom to establish consciousness of connection. In general what is desirable is that a topic be presented in such a way that it either have an immediate value, and require no justification, or else be perceived to be a means of achieving something of intrinsic value. An instrumental value then has the intrinsic value of being a means to an end. It ...

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