(a) An institution of higher learning granting the license to teach and other, higher degrees; also applied to advanced schools of classical and early medieval times; the body of scholars and teachers in a university, the members of a university; also person. [quot. a1425(?a1400)]; also, the buildings of a university; (b) in the names of specific universities or their appurtenances; ~ halle; ~ of oxe-ford (paris, etc.).

(a) All, all things; the cosmos, universe, whole world; also, an encapsulation, epitome [quot. c1384, 2nd]; ~ of thinges; (b) entirety, totality; also, fullness, completion, perfection [quot. a1425]; your ~, all of you; (c) an entirety, the whole of some category of things; (d) phil. the abstraction formed by reason; (e) ?fellowship, communion.