Particular

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.

(2): ( a.) Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.

(3): ( a.) Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular.

(4): ( a.) Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.

(5): ( a.) Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.

(6): ( a.) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; - opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise.

(7): ( a.) Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation.

(8): ( n.) Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc.

(9): ( n.) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; - usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises.

(10): ( a.) Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.

King James Dictionary [2]

Partic'Ular, a. Low L. particularis, from particula.

1. Pertaining to a single person or thing not general as, this remark has a particular application. 2. Individual noting or designating a single thing by way of distinction. Each plant has its particular nutriment. Most persons have a particular trait of character. He alludes to a particular person. 3. Noting some property or thing peculiar.

Of this prince there is little particular memory.

4. Attentive to things single or distinct minute. I have been particular in examining the reasons of this law. 5. Single not general. 6. Odd singular having something that eminently distinguishes one from others. 7. Singularly nice in taste as a man very particular in his diet or dress. 8. Special more than ordinary. He has brought no particular news. 9. Containing a part only as a particular estate, precedent to the estate in remainder. 10. Holding a particular estate as a particular tenant.

Partic'Ular, n. A single instance a single point.

I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal.

1. A distinct, separate or minute part as, he told me all the particulars of the story. 2. An individual a private person. 3. Private interest as, they apply their minds to those branches of public prayer, wherein their own particular is moved. Not in use. 4. Private character state of an individual.

For his particular, I will receive him gladly. Not in use.

5. A minute detail of things singly enumerated.

The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. Not in use.

In particular, specially peculiarly distinctly.

This, in particular, happens to the lungs.

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