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  • English Word General Definition Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.
  • English Word General Definition The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.
  • English Word General Definition One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.
  • English Word General Definition The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.
  • English Word General Definition The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.
  • English Word General Definition The public; the people; the vulgar.
  • English Word Generalia Definition Generalities; general terms.
  • English Word Generalissimo Definition The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.
  • English Word Generalities Definition of Generality
  • English Word Generality Definition The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
  • English Word Generality Definition That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase.
  • English Word Generality Definition The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind.
  • English Word Generalizable Definition Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.
  • English Word Generalization Definition The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.
  • English Word Generalization Definition A general inference.
  • English Word Generalize Definition To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
  • English Word Generalize Definition To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.
  • English Word Generalize Definition To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
  • English Word Generalize Definition To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.
  • English Word Generalized Definition of Generalize
  • English Word Generalized Definition Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
  • English Word Generalizer Definition One who takes general or comprehensive views.
  • English Word Generalizing Definition of Generalize
  • English Word Generally Definition In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
  • English Word Generally Definition In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively.
  • English Word Generally Definition Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.
  • English Word Generalness Definition The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.
  • English Word Generalship Definition The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
  • English Word Generalship Definition Military skill in a general officer or commander.
  • English Word Generalship Definition Fig.: Leadership; management.