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English Dictionary: particular	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
particular adj unique or specific to a person or thing or category; "the particular demands of the job"; "has a particular preference for Chinese art"; "a peculiar bond of sympathy between them"; "an expression peculiar to Canadians"; "rights peculiar to the rich"; "the special features of a computer"; "my own special chair" Synonym(s): particular(a), peculiar(a), special(a) separate and distinct from others of the same group or category; "interested in one particular artist"; "a man who wishes to make a particular woman fall in love with him" surpassing what is common or usual or expected; "he paid especial attention to her"; "exceptional kindness"; "a matter of particular and unusual importance"; "a special occasion"; "a special reason to confide in her"; "what's so special about the year 2000?" Synonym(s): especial(a), exceptional, particular(a), special first and most important; "his special interest is music"; "she gets special (or particular) satisfaction from her volunteer work" Synonym(s): particular, special exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared" Synonym(s): finical, finicky, fussy, particular, picky providing specific details or circumstances; "a particular description of the room" n a fact about some part (as opposed to general); "he always reasons from the particular to the general" Synonym(s): particular, specific Antonym(s): general a small part that can be considered separately from the whole; "it was perfect in all details" Synonym(s): detail, particular, item (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class Synonym(s): particular, particular proposition Antonym(s): universal, universal proposition
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Particular \Partic"ular\, 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. [bd]Thine own particular wrongs.[b8] --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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Particular \Partic"ular\, 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. [bd]This, in particular, happens to the lungs.[b8] --Blackmore. {To go into particulars}, to relate or describe in detail or minutely.