a. [f. prec. + -IC.]
1. Theol. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, Universalism or the Universalists.
1847. R. W. Hamilton, Rewards & Punishm., vii. 389. A strong defence of the universalistic doctrine.
1887. E. Johnson, Antiqua Mater, 219. The Gnostics, sharing the universalistic aspirations of the time.
2. Of, pertaining or extending to, including or affecting, the whole of something, esp. the whole of mankind; inclined to be universal in scope or character. Also transf.
Universalistic Hedonism, Utilitarianism.
1872. Contemp. Rev., XIX. 664. A … syncretion of Egoistic and Universalistic Hedonism.
1878. Morley, Diderot, II. 207. Holbach is a universalistic and not an egoistic Hedonist.
1882. Athenæum, 11 Feb., 184/1. The universalistic tendencies of the great empires.
1886. Encycl. Brit., XX. 370/1. Universalistic religious communities: Islâm, Buddhism, Christianity.
