"varsal" meaning in English

See varsal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Short for universal. Etymology templates: {{short for|en|universal}} Short for universal. Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} varsal (not comparable)
  1. (obsolete, colloquial, usually with world) Whole, entire. Tags: colloquial, not-comparable, obsolete, usually
    Sense id: en-varsal-en-adj-c6GAJwRb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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        {
          "ref": "1731, Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation:",
          "text": "Why, my Lord, you see he's the provokingest Creature in Life: I believe, there is not such another in the varsal World.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1826, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, The Rose, Thistle and Shamrock, act III, scene II:",
          "text": "Now I would give five golden guineas this minute, that her father or any mortal man, woman or child in the varsal world, would come in and say something; for 'tis so awk'ard for I to be sitting here, and I nothing to say to she.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:",
          "text": "Yo' see, if yo'd spoken o' religion as a thing that, if it was true, it didn't concern all men to press on all men's attention, above everything else in this 'varsal earth, I should ha' thought yo' a knave for to be a parson; and I'd rather think yo' a fool than a knave.",
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        "(obsolete, colloquial, usually with world) Whole, entire."
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        "with world"
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        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete",
        "usually"
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          "ref": "1731, Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation:",
          "text": "Why, my Lord, you see he's the provokingest Creature in Life: I believe, there is not such another in the varsal World.",
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          "ref": "1826, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, The Rose, Thistle and Shamrock, act III, scene II:",
          "text": "Now I would give five golden guineas this minute, that her father or any mortal man, woman or child in the varsal world, would come in and say something; for 'tis so awk'ard for I to be sitting here, and I nothing to say to she.",
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        },
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          "text": "Yo' see, if yo'd spoken o' religion as a thing that, if it was true, it didn't concern all men to press on all men's attention, above everything else in this 'varsal earth, I should ha' thought yo' a knave for to be a parson; and I'd rather think yo' a fool than a knave.",
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        "(obsolete, colloquial, usually with world) Whole, entire."
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