Par*tic"u*lar (?), 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.
Bacon. It is the greatest interest of particulars
to advance the good of the community.
L'Estrange.
2. Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc. [Obs.]
For his particular I'll receive him gladly.
Shak.
If the
particulars of each person be considered.
Milton. Temporal
blessings, whether such as concern the public . . . or such as concern our particular.
Whole Duty of
Man. 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.
Ayliffe. Bill of particulars. See under Bill. - - In particular, specially; peculiarly. "This,
in particular,
happens to the lungs."
Blackmore. -- To go into particulars, to relate or describe in detail or minutely.
Par*tic"u*lar (?), a.
[OE. particuler, F. particulier, L. particularis. See Particle.]
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.
Shak.
[/Make] each particular hair to stand
an end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
Shak.
Seken in every halk and every herne
Particular sciences for
to lerne.
Chaucer.
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." Shak.
Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth.
Bacon. 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. Blackstone.
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.
Syn. -- Minute; individual; respective; appropriate; peculiar;
especial; exact; specific; precise; critical; circumstantial. See Minute.
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