adv. [f. prec. + -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 tho 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, Lett., 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 Reids Wks. (1846), I. 205/2. If the names were to be employed univocallyi.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.