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Particular   /pərtˈɪkjələr/  /pˌɑtˈɪkjələr/   Listen
adjective
Particular  adj.  
1.
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. "(Make) each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine." "Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne."
2.
Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular. "Thine own particular wrongs." "Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth."
3.
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.
4.
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.
5.
(Law)
(a)
Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.
(b)
Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.
6.
(Logic) 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.
Particular average. See under Average.
Particular Baptist, one of a branch of the Baptist denomination the members of which hold the doctrine of a particular or individual election and reprobation.
Particular lien (Law), a lien, or a right to retain a thing, for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, that particular thing.
Particular redemption, the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See Calvinism.
Synonyms: Minute; individual; respective; appropriate; peculiar; especial; exact; specific; precise; critical; circumstantial. See Minute.


noun
Particular  n.  
1.
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. "Particulars which it is not lawful for me to reveal." "It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community."
2.
Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc. (Obs.) "For his particular I'll receive him gladly." "If the particulars of each person be considered." "Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public... or such as concern our particular."
3.
(Law) 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. "The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written."
Bill of particulars. See under Bill.
In particular, specially; specifically; peculiarly; particularly; especially. "This, in particular, happens to the lungs."
To go into particulars, to relate or describe in detail or minutely.





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"Particular" Quotes from Famous Books



... next to none, of the great versatility of action of which the electric current is capable. They know nothing of the electrical polarization of the living organism in health, nor how it is variously affected in disease. The particular electrical state of the diseased organs is a matter foreign to their minds. They appear to suppose the point to be immediately aimed at as a means of cure is to get the electricity from the machine into the affected part or parts; whereas it should be to change, by correction, ...
— A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication • Daniel Clark
... is. I shall be very sorry. I should be willing to have it rough again, it that would make it longer. I liked it's being rough. We had it to ourselves." He had not thought how that sounded, but if it sounded particular, she did not ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... that you shall not have it? This love forces on you no particular husband; it but gives you the proud right, once disputed, of seeking your husband among ...
— Henry VIII And His Court • Louise Muhlbach
... have particular regard to the time present, and to be most solicitous for that which is by its nearness enabled to make the strongest impressions. When therefore any sharp pain is to be suffered, or any formidable danger to be incurred, we can scarcely exempt ourselves ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson
... was perpetuated by the name of the place; compare ver. 25: "And Joshua said. Why hast thou troubled us? The Lord shall trouble thee this day. Therefore the name of the place was called. The valley of Achor, unto this day." This particular dealing of God, however, is based upon His nature, and must, therefore, repeat itself when Israel again comes into similar circumstances,—must be repeated, in general, whensoever similar conditions arise. Even they who have already entered the [Pg 263] promised land, who have ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg


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