uˈnivocally, adv.
[f. univocal a. + -ly2.]
1. So as to mean only one thing or species; in one and the same sense; with one meaning or signification; hence, unmistakably, unambiguously.
| 1593 T. Bell Motives Romish Faith (1605) 110 If matrimony be a sacrament properly and vnivocally so called. 1626 Jackson Creed viii. viii. §2 The generall definition..of a servant is univocally the same, (1) in legall servants, (2) in servants to sin [etc.]. 1638 Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. vi. §42. 363 You have not set down cleerely and univocally what you mean by it. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles iii. ii. iii. 248 That nothing can predicate univocally of God and the Creature is most evident. 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Predicable, A Predicable is a Nature which may be predicated univocally of all things to which it is common. c 1790 Reid Let. Wks. 1846 I. 75/2 The same word may be applied to different things in three ways:..Univocally, when the things are species of the same genus [etc.]. 1842 Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. (1846) I. 205/2 If the names..were to be employed univocally—i.e., to denote always things the same or similar. 1874 Contemp. Rev. XXIV. 788 As if every tyro in theology did not know that not even ‘being’ could be predicated univocally of God and of any creature. |
† 2. By members of the same species; regularly, normally. (Cf. univocal a. 3.) Obs.
| a 1676 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. ix. (1677) 207 Animals which are perfect and univocally generated. 1704 Ray Creation (ed. 4) ii. 372 All Creatures are generated Univocally by Parents of their own kind. 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Equivocation, The Moderns..hold that all Animals, nay and Vegetables too, are Univocally produced. |
3. With one voice; unanimously.
| 1671 J. Webster Metallogr. xviii. 255 Therefore the..Secretaries of this Philosophy do univocally testifie, that [etc.]. 1862 Temple Bar Mag. VI. 171 All bellowed out univocally that the sole object..was to drive dull care away. |