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Brit. /p
t
kj
l/, U.S. /p(r)tkjlr/, /p
rtkjlr/ Forms: ME particlare, ME particuleer, ME particulere, ME particulier, ME particulyr, ME partituler (transmission error), ME-15 partyculer, ME-15 pertyculer, ME-16 particler, ME-16 particulare, ME-16 particuler, ME-17 perticuler, ME- particular, 15 particlar, 15 partycular, 15 perteculer, 15 perticulere, 15 pertiler (transmission error), 15 pertycular, 15-17 perticular, 16 partickcular, 16 partycullar, 16 perticler, 16 perticollar, 16 pertycalor; regional and nonstandard 17- partiklar, 18 partic'lar, 18 partikkiler, 18 pertickeler, 18 perticular, 18 pretickelar, 18 preticklar, 18- partickler, 18- particler, 18- partic'ler, 18- partikler, 18- pertickler, 19- partikeler, 19- perticlar, 19- pertic'lar, 19- peticular, 19- pettickler, 19- p'tickler, 19- puhtickluh (in African-American usage); Sc. pre-17 pairticular, pre-17 particaular, pre-17 particollar, pre-17 particulair, pre-17 particulaire, pre-17 particulare, pre-17 particuler, pre-17 particulere, pre-17 particulewer, pre-17 particuleyr, pre-17 particulier, pre-17 particullar, pre-17 particullor, pre-17 particwlar, pre-17 partikulare, pre-17 partiquelar, pre-17 pertecuelor, pre-17 pertecular, pre-17 pertickullor, pre-17 perticlar, pre-17 perticuleir, pre-17 perticuler, pre-17 perticullar, pre-17 pertiklour, pre-17 pertycular, pre-17 17- particular, pre-17 18 perticular, 18 partecklar, 18 parteclar, 18 particwilar, 18 partikler, 18 petikler, 18- parteekler, 19- parteeclar, 19- parteeklar, 19- particeelar, 19- particler, 19- partic'ler; also Irish English (north.) 19- parteeclar, 19- partikler. [< Anglo-Norman particuler and Middle French particulier, particuler, particullier (c1265 in Old French as particuler; French particulier) limited to a part, not universal (c1265), distinguished from other individuals or elements, special (c1265), concerning only an individual, private (c1300), relating to the property or characteristic of an individual (1314), turned in on oneself, egotistic (end of 14th cent.), odd, bizarre (1549), familiar (1559) and its etymon post-classical Latin particularis of or concerning a part, particular, not universal (4th cent., especially in logic), partial (6th cent.), distinct, specific, separate (from late 12th cent. in British sources), detailed (1242, 1483, c1564 in British sources) < classical Latin particula PARTICLE n. + -
ris -AR suffix1. Compare Middle French particulaire (14th cent. in an isolated attestation), Old Occitan particular, Italian particolare (early 14th cent. as particulare), Spanish particular (1433).
With use as a noun, compare Middle French, French particulier private citizen (early 15th cent.), detail (a1473), personal interest (1580), particular proposition in logic (a1630), mistress or prostitute (1649; compare also particulière dame mistress, sweetheart (1607)), intimacy (1655), individual (1690), post-classical Latin particulare (use as noun of neuter of particularis) that which is particular, individual, as opposed to universal (4th cent., especially in logic), part of a whole (1363 in Chauliac), detail (1424 in a British source). Compare also Old Occitan particular (15th cent.).
With in particular (see Phrases) compare French en particulier by express clause (c1360), individually (a1413), especially (1426), in detail (1530), also post-classical Latin in particulari (c1340 in a British source).
A shortened form partic' is attested in Scots in the late 19th cent.]
A. adj.
1. 
a. Belonging to or affecting only a part of something; partial; not universal. Obs.
a1387 J. TREVISA tr. R. Higden
Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) I. 189 In
is province of
at lond was
e ridde particuler flood [L.
tertium diluvium particulare].
?a1439 LYDGATE tr.
Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263)
III. 5139 Loo, heer a sorwe nat particuleer [
rhyme neer] For thoruh al Perse ran the cursidnesse.
1542 A. B
ORDE Compend. Regyment Helth xxxvi. sig. M4
v, They the whiche haue the Palsye, vnyuersall or pertyculer, must beware of anger.
1625 BACON Ess. (new ed.) 330 The Three yeares Drought, in the time of Elias, was but Particular, and left People Aliue.
1643 SIR T. BROWNE Relig. Medici I. §22 'Tis ridiculous to put off, or drowne, the generall Flood of Noah, in that particular inundation of Deucalion.
b. Logic. Designating a proposition in which something is predicated, affirmatively or negatively, of some but not all of a class. Opposed to universal (UNIVERSAL adj. 6b).
1551 T. WILSON Rule of Reason sig. Gij, If one of the proposicions be perticular, or negatiue, the conclusion is perticular, or negatiue.
1552 T. WILSON Rule of Reason (new ed.) sig. Hvj, Wherby euery proposicion is knowen, either to bee vniuersall, or particular, affirmatiue, or negatiue.
1697tr. F. Burgersdijck
Monitio Logica II. 27
A, denotes a Universal Affirming..
I, a Particular Affirming.
1725 I. WATTS Logick II. ii. §1 Propositions may be divided according to their subject into universal and particular.
1843 J. S. MILL Syst. Logic (1846)
I. iv. §4. 115 A particular proposition is that of which the subject is undistributed.
1860 ABP. W. THOMSON Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 5) §74. 127 A judgment about part of a conception as ‘Some lakes have an outlet’ is a particular judgment.
1906 H. W. B. JOSEPH Introd. to Logic x. 211 A proposition is said to be converted
by limitation, or
per accidens, when, it being universal, its converse is particular.
1958 Jrnl. Philos. 55 665 The particular proposition like ‘some men are wise’ becomes, when generalized, ‘Man may be wise’.
2001 Bull. Symbolic Logic 7 399 An
extended mood is a quadruple whose first and third components are universal propositions..and whose fourth component is a particular proposition.
c. Theol. Relating to, or in accordance with, the doctrine of particularism; esp. in particular election, particular redemption.
2. a. That is a unit or one among a number; taken or considered as an individual, apart from the rest; single; distinct, individual, specific.
a1387 J. TREVISA tr. R. Higden
Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) I. 295 Many particular prouinces is comprehendid vndir
e name of
at lond.
?a1425tr. Guy de Chauliac
Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 5
v, Of extenuacioun & ingrossacioun of bodiez & of perticuler membres.
c1475tr. C. de Pisan
Livre du Corps de Policie 104 Ther be many particulyr thyngis in his londe..whiche ben oute of nombre.
1529 T. MORE Dialogue Heresyes IV, in
Wks. (1557) 261/2 Who was there euer that laid vnto another all the perticulere euill dedes of any one other man.
a1538 T. STARKEY Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 44 Every man partycular & also the hole commynalty.
1603 SHAKESPEARE Hamlet I. v. 19 Make..each particular haire to stand an end.
1688 R. HOLME Acad. Armory III. 401/2, I shall set down each perticular Letter.
1709 G. BERKELEY Ess. New Theory of Vision §132. 154 A Task far more difficult... And I leave it to the Reflexion and Experience of every particular Person, to determine for himself.
1763 J. BROWN Diss. Poetry & Music xii. 207 Particular and well attested Facts are stubborn Things.
1821 T. JEFFERSON in
Writings (1984) 55 These memoranda were on loose papers, bundled up without order, and difficult of recurrence when I had occasion for a particular one
1868 E. A. FREEMAN Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 125 This particular tax was a painful and hateful badge of national disgrace.
1893 H. P. LIDDON et al.
Life Pusey I. xviii. 417 The Ancient Fathers..bring the thought of particular Churches into communion with the thought of the Universal Church, when outwardly united.
1930 N. COWARD Private Lives II. 55
Elyot, Do you remember that awful scene we had in Venice?
Amanda. Which particular one?
1966 C. E
KWENSI Lokotown i. 1 On this particular morning, he was getting to work late and he knew it.
2001 J. F
RANZEN Corrections 139 On that particular afternoon..the weather in his brain was as warm and bright as the weather in northwest Philadelphia.
b. Existing separately apart from others; distinct; independent, standing alone. Obs.
1547 A. B
ORDE Breuiary of Helthe I. Proheme f. iiii, Diligently to consyder yf the sickenes..or impedyment, be perticuler by him selfe: or els that it haue any other infyrmyte concurrant with it.
1585 T. WASHINGTON tr. N. de Nicolay
Nauigations Turkie I. vii. 6 Alger is as it were ordered as a particular common wealth.
1655 E. TERRY Voy. E.-India 78 Thirty and seven several and large Provinces, which antiently were particular Kingdomes.
3. a. Belonging or relating to one person or thing as distinguished from another; of one's own; special; specialized; not general.
Often preceded by a possessive adjective, as ‘its particular advantages’ = the advantages which it, as distinct from other things, possesses; ‘my particular sentiments’ = sentiments which are my own, not those of someone else.
particular average: see AVERAGE n.2 4.
c1395 CHAUCER Franklin's Tale 1122 Yonge clerkes..Seken in euery halke and euery herne Particuler sciences for to lerne.
c1395 CHAUCER Clerk's Tale 35 Petrak..Enlumyned al Ytaille of poetrie As Lynyan dide of philosophie Or lawe or oother art particuler.
c1425(
a1420)
LYDGATE Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A. 4)
IV. 206, I haue do my dever In general
ing and particuler.
1450 J. F
ASTOLF in
Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 112 You and my frendz..have more particuler knoulege yn such materes.
1490 CAXTON tr.
Eneydos vii. 33 He..that for his partyculer wele wyll leue y
e publike & comyn wele.
1559 in J. Strype
Ann. Reformation (1709) I.
II. App. viii. 423 The first byshopps of Rome were particular byshopps of a certein precinct.
1584 B. RICH Don Simonides II 17 Where the mind is ocupied with wise preceptes, the actions of the life can hardly be vnconstant..vnlesse in a particuler mans opinion, this toucheth not the Lawe it self with any varietie.
1589 G. PUTTENHAM Arte Eng. Poesie III. xix. 201, I will cal him by the name of
Resemblance without any addition, from which I deriue three other sorts: and giue euery one his particular name.
1656 EARL OF MONMOUTH tr. T. Boccalini
Ragguagli di Parnasso I. lv. 109 We..prohibit..the writing particular Histories of any whatsoever City.
1677 A. MARVELL Corr. in
Wks. (1875) II. 554 This was..reported to the House, who..named a particular Committee to that purpose.
1709 R. STEELE Tatler No. 83.
1 We live in an Age wherein Vice is very general, and Virtue very particular.
1740 D. HUME Treat. Human Nature III.
II. 82 Their first difficulty, in this situation..is, how to separate their possessions, and assign to each his particular portion.
1780 E. BURKE Let. to W. Watts in
Athenæum (1893) 27 May 672/1 These are not my particular Sentiments..they are the unanimous Sentiments of all who are distinguished in this Kingdom, for learning, integrity, and abilities.
1826 J. F. COOPER Last of Mohicans II. xv. 256 His words were answered by a shout, and at a given signal, each warrior made a swift movement around his particular tree
1837 DICKENS Pickwick Papers xliv. 482 Vich is your partickler wanity?
1872 ‘G. ELIOT’ Middlemarch IV. lxxxiii. 313 She sat down in the library before her particular little heap of books on political economy.
1928 E. BLUNDEN Undertones of War ii. 17, I was put in charge of No. 11 Platoon, but in the trenches a subaltern's business was rather general than particular.
1954 W. M
ARCH Bad Seed i. 9 The parents of each pupil has been asked to have their particular child on the school lawn not later than eight o'clock.
1986 D. M
ADDEN Hidden Symptoms (1988) 39 She believed that everyone had their own particular cross to bear in life.
2002 Glamour July 166/3 You'll already know that her particular brand of humour is desert-dry and Wilde-esquely witty.
b. Belonging only to a specified person or thing; proper, peculiar, restricted.
1582 R. MULCASTER 1st Pt. Elementarie xvii. 108 By this description it appeareth, that the rules which belong to right writing in this kinde, be either generall to the tung, or particular to the charact.
1597 T. MORLEY Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 179 The light musicke particular to vs in England.
1631 E. JORDEN Disc. Nat. Bathes (1632) xvii. 132 The vse [of Bath waters] is either generall to the whole body, as in bathing; or particular to some one part, as in bucketing or pumping.
1683 Apol. Protestant France ii. 13 What was particular to Ecclesiasticks and Relapse Protestants, is now become universal to all Roman Catholicks.
c1703 L
D. G
ODOLPHIN in
Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 352 What the Queen has commanded..is not particular to that office, but general to all others.
1725 D. COTES tr. L. E. Du Pin
New Eccl. Hist. I.
VI. ii. 228 His System upon Original Sin..was particular to him.
1785 T. JEFFERSON Notes Virginia xx. 304 (
heading) A notice of the commercial productions particular to the state.
1860-1 F. NIGHTINGALE Notes on Nursing 77 Good nursing consists simply in observing little things which are common to all sick, and those which are particular to each sick individual.
1930 Terms & Def. Telegr. & Teleph. (B.S.I.) 21 A calling station can call any selected station independently of the others by employing the frequency particular to the selected station.
1970 New Scientist 1 Oct. 38/2 Tunnelling is a phenomenon particular to quantum mechanics.
2001 L. M
ITTON Victorian Hosp. 17 (
caption) Jessop Hospital for Women, Sheffield, opened in 1864 to attend cases of midwifery and diseases particular to women.
4. a. Concerning or known to an individual person or group of people and no other; private, not public; personal; confidential. Obs.
1442 T. B
EKINGTON Let. in G. Williams
Mem. Reign Henry VI (1872) II. 191 The Kings..proufuits and availe be leied apart, and..no thing doon nor spedde but by favour and particulier lucre.
1459 J. B
OKKYNG in
Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 187 As for ony particuler materes, the parlament as yet abideth vpon the grete materes of atteyndre and forfeture, and soo
ere be many and diuerse particuler billes put jnne but noon redde.
c1485(1456) G. H
AY Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 249 Bataill particulere is ay for hid caus yat may nocht be kyd opynly.
1563 in J. H. Burton
Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 244 Personis without ony particular interest, and voyd of all passioun.
1565 in J. H. Burton
Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 414 Untrew and groundit upoun particular malice.
a1616 SHAKESPEARE King Lear (1623)
V. i. 21 For these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.
1662 J. DAVIES tr. J. A. de Mandelslo
Trav. 3 They about the Court..procured me a particular audience.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 3 Houses, both Publick and Particular.
1768 J. BOSWELL Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) ii. 120 Their want of union; which made particular animosities take up their attention.
1789 E. B
UTLER Jrnl. 20 Mar. in E. M. Bell
Hamwood Papers (1930) 191 Sent for Mr. Edwards of the Hand about
very Particular business.
1881 TROLLOPE Ayala's Angel II. xl. 222 If you would not mind going away for ten minutes, I could say a few words on very particular business to your aunt.
a1889 R. BROWNING Poet. Wks. (1888-94) VIII.
IX. x. 23 For public good He sunk particular qualms and played the spy.
b. Of a person: not holding a public office or position. Obs.
1583 T. STOCKER tr.
Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries IV. 4 b, All the rest of the Nobilitie, Knights, perticuler Gentlemen, and Subjects.
1664 B. G
ERBIER Counsel to Builders (new ed.)
I. sig. a5, Not onely to particular, but to Publique Builders.
1748 B. R
OBINS & R. W
ALTER Voy. round World by Anson II. x. 238 Enriching the Jesuits and a few particular persons besides.
1785 T. HOLCROFT Follies of Day (front matter) p. iii, Though to thank the Public is to thank nobody, since no particular Person takes this Sort of Compliments to himself, [etc.]
5. a. Distinguished in some way among others of the same kind; not ordinary; worthy of notice, remarkable; special.
1485 CAXTON tr.
Charles the Grete (1881) 195 Al creatures resonable owen to gyue synguler honour & pertyculer loue to hym that hath gyuen to them beyng.
1525 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 74 Ordanis the justice generale..to sett justice courtis particular quhen neid is for pvnicioun of particular faltis.
a1572 J. KNOX Hist. Reformation Scotl. in
Wks. (1848) II. 74 Of the Lordis or uthir particular men of this realme.
1601 B. JONSON Fountaine of Selfe-love V. xi. 49 Particular paines, particular thankes do aske.
1622 BACON Hist. Raigne Henry VII 205 Of this Prince [
sc. Arthur]..there is little particular Memorie. Only..that hee was very studious and learned.
1665 J. BUNYAN Holy Citie 27 They were men of a particular and peculiar Spirit.
1705 Boston News-let. 2-9 July 2/2 That all Persons every where, who have any Hemp growing in this & the Neighbouring Provinces, would use their particular and utmost care to save what Seed they can for the publick benefit.
1739 D. HUME Treat. Human Nature II.
III. 292 None of the direct affections seem to merit our particular attention.
1774 O. GOLDSMITH Hist. Earth IV. 319 Its [
sc. the nylghau's] manner of fighting is very particular.
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 200 The politician takes up the paper..and tells his friend that it contains nothing
particular, when he means that it has nothing important.
1835 H. MILLER Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xxii. 384 Whether a rich man or a poor man one, no one could look at him and doubt of his being a
particular man.
1861 M. PATTISON Ess. (1889) I. 35 To tender particular thanks to Anne..for the felicitous suggestion.
1886 T. HARDY Mayor of Casterbridge II. vi. 84 Farfrae set down Elizabeth-Jane, on her expressing a particular wish to alight there.
1925 J. CONRAD Suspense I. i. 9 There was certainly no one there to address me as ‘My son’ in that particular tone.
1948 G. GREENE Heart of Matter I.
I i. 6 It seemed to him that no particular interest attached to the squat grey-haired man walking alone up Bond Street.
1988 Paragraph 11 257 The child experienced at the funeral a particular feeling of despair.
2000 M.
DE V
ILLIERS Water II. v. 91 It's..an unruly jumble of larches..wild cherries and junk woods of no particular lineage.
b. Chiefly Eng. regional. So unusual as to excite attention; peculiar, odd, strange.
1712 J. ARBUTHNOT John Bull III. iii. 12 Peg..lov'd any thing that was particular..Jack was her man; for he neither thought, spoke, dress'd, nor acted like other Mortals.
1771 J. WESLEY Wks. (1872) V. 322 Do we not many times dispense with religion and reason together, because we would not look particular?
c1817 J. HOGG Tales & Sketches V. 75 His gait was very particular: he walked as if he had been flat-soled.
1861 ‘G. ELIOT’ Silas Marner vi. 96 A partic'lar thing happened,..a very partic'lar thing.
1889 Cornhill Mag. May 480 A vara particler man..was Robert Soothey.
c. Prosody (now chiefly U.S.). Designating any of several modifications of ordinary iambic metres used for hymns. Usu. with additional distinguishing word, as common particular metre, long particular metre, short particular metre.
1850 Parish Hymns 444 Table of Metres... C.P.M...Common Particular Metre. 1890 Cent. Dict. at Meter, Long meter may also have six lines to the stanza, and is then called..Long Particular Meter (L. P. M.), with the syllabic scheme 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8. Other meters of this class are Common Particular Meter (C. P. M.), 8, 8, 6, 8, 8, 6; Short Particular Meter (S. P. M.), 6, 6, 8, 6, 6, 8 [etc.]. 1978 PMLA 93 425/1 Both the common particular meter (8, 8, 6, 8, 8, 6) and the rhyme scheme..remain regular throughout.
d. euphem. in a particular condition: pregnant. Cf. (to be) in an interesting condition at INTERESTING adj. 3. rare.
1922 J. JOYCE Ulysses II. 398 All these little attentions would enable ladies who were in a particular condition to pass the intervening months in a most enjoyable manner.
6. a. Of a description, narrative, etc.: relating to or concerned with the separate elements or parts of a whole; detailed. Of a question: soliciting detailed or specific information. Now arch.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxiii, A more playne and perticuler declaracion of the malicious & trayterous intentes of the sayd Elizabeth.
1589 G. PUTTENHAM Arte Eng. Poesie III. viii. 130 It was therefore of necessitie that a more curious and particular description should bee made of euery manner of speech.
1609 Wemyss of Bogie MSS in
Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1977) V.
XXIX. 324/2 Ane perfyte and particular inventar maid of the haill utenseills.
1642 BP. J. TAYLOR Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 333 Why are they called Acephali? Nicephorus gives this reason, and withall a very particular account of their heresy..They refused to live under Bishops.
1669 S. STURMY Mariners Mag. II. i. 47 The particular Description of the several Instruments.
1726 SWIFT Gulliver II.
IV. ix. 132 The only Debate that ever happened in that Country; whereof my Master after his Return gave me a very particular Account.
1786 T. JEFFERSON Writings (1859) I. 536 It is as particular as the four-sheet maps from which it is taken.
1798 Times 28 June 1/4 To be prepared..true and particular Lists, signed by them or their Agents, to be made out in the form prescribed.
1813 J. AUSTEN Let. 26 Oct. (1995) 244 Your Saturday's Letter..was quite as long & as particular as I could expect.
1854 H. D. THOREAU Walden 5, I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life.
1891 G. B. SHAW Quintessence of Ibsenism iii. 45, I may at last proceed to give some more particular account of Ibsen's work.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 712/2
Almanach de Gotha..gives a particular account of all the royal and princely families of Europe.
1967 Bull. Entomol Res. 57 392 The autoecology of
Antestia spp. (Pentatomidae) with a particular account of a strepsipterous parasite.
b. Of a person giving an account or description: paying attention to detail; precise, specific. Obs.
1607 B. JONSON Volpone Ded. sig. ¶2
v, Where haue I bin particular? Where personall, except to a Mimick, Cheater [etc.]?
1732 True & Faithful Narr. in Swift
Misc. III.
II. 256, I think my self oblig'd to be very particular in this Relation, lest my Veracity should be suspected.
1803 J. PORTER Thaddeus of Warsaw (1831) i. 6, I am thus particular in the relation of every incident.
1818 KEATS Endymion III. 127 Young man of Latmos! thus particular Am I, that thou may'st plainly see how far This fierce temptation went.
7. a. Of a friend or a friendship: close, familiar, intimate. Now passing into sense A. 5a.
1588 R. L
ANE in T. Hariot
Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. A2, I haue beene requested by some my particular friends, who conceiue more rightly of me, to deliuer freely my knowledge of the same.
a1713 T. ELLWOOD Hist. Life (1714) 3, I became an early and particular Play-fellow to her Daughter Guli.
1781 R. B. SHERIDAN Critic II. ii, These are particular friends of mine.
a1817 J. AUSTEN Lady Susan xi, in
Wks. (1954) VI. 259 On terms of the most particular friendship.
1846 DICKENS Dombey & Son (1848) i. 5 Paul my dear, my very particular friend Miss Tox.
1892 R. L. STEVENSON & L. O
SBOURNE Wrecker viii. 166 No man ever embarked upon a milder course of dissipation, most of his days being passed in the little parlour behind Black Tom's public house, with a select corps of old particular acquaintances.
1925 H. W. B
RECHT Two Heroes in
Harper's Sept. 480/2 As Malcolm walked..into the sixth grade room, he wished that his particular friend, Dick Angell were there.
1957 Africa 27 29 The District Head..may request that the praise-songs of title-holders who are his particular friends..should also be sung.
2002 Express & Echo (
Exeter
)
(Nexis) 19 Nov. 20 She and her family were neighbours and friends.., and their daughter, Fay, was a particular friend of hers.
b. Especially attentive or friendly to someone; familiar in behaviour or manner; ingratiating. Obs.
1612 B. JONSON Alchemist IV. i. sig. H4,
Mam... Sweet Madame, le'me be particular.
Dol. Particular, Sir? I pray you know your distance.
1694 W. CONGREVE Double-dealer III. i. 35 So unaffected, so easie, so free, so particular, so agreeable.
1722 D. DEFOE Moll Flanders 234 He singl'd me out, and was very particular with me.
1749 H. FIELDING Tom Jones IV
XI. iv. 124 Never suffer this Fellow to be particular with you again.
1771 T. SMOLLETT Humphry Clinker I. 197, I must tell you in confidence, he was a little particular; but, perhaps, I mistake his complaisance; and I wish I may, for his sake.
1826 J. GALT Last of Lairds xix. 168 It was said you were particular to auld Captain Hawser o' the press-gang.
1847 DICKENS Dombey & Son (1848) xxix. 295 If I..have ever had any lingering thought that Mr. Dombey was inclined to be particular towards me, surely
you will not condemn me.
8. Attentive to the details of activities and arrangements; careful, precise, or scrupulous. Hence: exacting; fastidious.
1616 B. JONSON Cynthias Revels in
Wks. V. iv. 241, I assure you, although no bred courtling, yet a most particular man.
1701 T. BAKER Humour of Age V. i. 55 But your Bookish Virtuoso sort of People are generally very particular.
1712 S. CENTLIVRE Perplex'd Lovers I. i. 2
Bast. You are very particular.
Tim. I love punctual dealings, Sir.
1781 R. B. SHERIDAN Trip to Scarborough I. i. 5, I must charge the landlord to be very particular where he stows this.
1814 DUKE OF WELLINGTON 11 June in J. Gurwood
Dispatches (1838) XII. 50, I am very particular about the appointment of my chaplains.
1865 H. KINGSLEY Hillyars & Burtons xxviii, More particular over their rations than any corn-stalk cockatoo.
1879 W. BLACK Macleod of Dare xviii, People who have to work for their living must not be too particular.
1901 M. FRANKLIN My Brilliant Career xvii. 150 The boss is so dashed partickler too.
1915 W. CATHER Song of Lark III. i. 253 ‘He'd tried a good many jobs,’ Thea added musingly; ‘perhaps he was too particular about the kind he could take, for he never picked up much.’
1932 Punch 2 Nov. 488/1 He was rather particular what he ate and drank.
1988 G. A
DAIR Holy Innocents 50 Both Danielle and he were particular about sharing toothbrushes.
2003 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 14 Feb. 1 We will not sacrifice quality. We're very particular about quality control.
B. n.
1. a. A minute or subordinate part of something, considered separately from the rest; a (single) circumstance, detail, or feature; an item or point.
?a1425tr. Guy de Chauliac
Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 165
v,
at at proffite to one
noye to
anoer..for diuersite of particulerez of complexionz of folkes [
c1425 Paris dyuerste of
e particulere complexioun of
e folke; L.
diversitatem particularium complexionum gencium].
1445 in E. A. Webb
Rec. St. Bartholomew's Priory I. 500 Jhn. Bell..knowes the truth of the matter in that particular..please hit youre said gode lordship the premisses considere..and doo and prescribe in that particular.
1533-4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 12 As by the particulers therof here after..shalbe expressed.
1555 R. EDEN tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria
Decades of Newe Worlde f. 176
v, This particular of the mynes of gold, is a thing greatly to bee noted.
1598 SHAKESPEARE Henry IV, Pt. 1 II. v. 380 Examine me vpon the particulars of my life.
1622 J. B
OROUGH in
Lett. Lit. Men (1843) 130 A private Library..to be sold, and [I] am promised a Catalogue of the particulars.
1683 T. ROBINSON in
Ray's Corr. (1848) 137 The
Seseli pratense Monspeliens agrees with our English Meadow Saxifrage in every particular.
1790 W. PALEY Horæ Paulinæ Rom. i. 10 Turn..to the second epistle..and you will discover the particular which remains to be sought for.
1844 LD. BROUGHAM Albert Lunel I. iii. 67 Every particular of it remains deeply engraven on my memory.
1883 R. L. STEVENSON Treasure Island I.
I. vi. 51 The map of an island, with latitude and longitude..and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores.
1920 R. FRY Vision & Design 3 It is true that in one small particular the reaction did have a direct effect.
1969 P. ROTH Portnoy's Complaint 72 Only that one knew exactly, and down to the smallest particular, how a center fielder should conduct himself.
1992 N. POSTMAN Technopoly iii. 41 Arkwright..exemplified in every particular the type of nineteenth-century entrepreneur to come.
2000 M. K
NEALE Eng. Passengers (2001) iii. 84 Besides, it was true enough, apart from a couple of little tiddling particulars that I'd forgot.
b. In pl. Detailed information about a person or thing; items or details of information; a detailed account. Also spec.: detailed instructions relating to the fulfilment of an order or contract.
1559 W. BALDWIN et al.
Myrroure for Magistrates Pref., I purpose not to stand here vppon the particulers, because they be in part set furth in the tragedyes.
1577 in R. U. Agnew
Corr. P. Waus (1882) 142 Thar is mony particularis quhilkis at the present I man leiff to wryit.
1584 A. B
ARLOWE in R. Hakluyt
Princ. Navigations (1589)
III. 733 We haue acquainted you with the particulars of our discouerie.
a1616 SHAKESPEARE Antony & Cleopatra (1623)
I. ii. 50 But how, but how, giue me particulars.
1687 A. LOVELL tr. J. de Thévenot
Trav. into Levant I. 74 A French man..told me all the particulars, and the order of it very exactly.
1716 London Gaz. No. 5445/3, Particulars of the said Estate may be had.
1784 E. ALLEN Reason viii. §3. 328 A more particular account of this new sectary has been lately published in a pamphlet by a Mr Rathburn, who..after a while apostarised [
sic] from the faith, and has since announced to the world the particulars of their doctrines and conduct.
1830 S. SMITH Mem. & Lett. (1855) II. 305, I have not heard the particulars of Jeffrey becoming Lord Advocate.
1833 DICKENS Let. ?Jan. (1965) I. 14, I am so anxious to hear the
particklers.
1891 Daily News 23 Oct., [Bradford] There is an absence of orders, but ‘particulars’ come to hand without delay and keep spinners fully employed.
a1901 W. BESANT Five Years' Tryst (1902) 197, I shall be prepared to give you further particulars as to the persons to whom this sum is due.
1930 W. H. AUDEN Poems 55 And recent particulars come to mind.
1964 C. C
HAPLIN My Autobiogr. v. 75 He ushers me into the adjoining office and took my name and address and all particulars.
2001 Chicago Tribune 17 Dec.
III. 13/3 Nanni wouldn't discuss the particulars of that contract.
c A statement giving the details of a thing; a detailed account, description, or enumeration; a minute. Obs.
c1600 J. DYMMOK Treat. Ireland (1842) 26 A perticuler of such strengths and fastness of woode and bogge as are in every province of Irelande.
1630tr. G. Botero
Relations Famous Kingdomes World 521, I have seene a particular of his daily expences.
1693 Mem. Cnt. Teckely III. 82 A loose Sheet..in which they made a Particular of the Cruelties which had been practised against several Persons of Note.
1719 D. DEFOE Life Robinson Crusoe 337 There was a Letter of my Partner's..giving me an Account how the Estate was improv'd, and what it produced a Year, with a Particular of the Number of Squares or Acres that it contained.
1720 H. P
UREFOY Let. 9 July in G. Eland
Purefoy Lett. (1931) II. App. B. 440, I send you inclosed a particular of my estate which I think, since money is plentiful, I can't do better than dispose of it.
1786 LD. NORTH Let. 6 Jan. in S. J. Davey
Catal. Autogr. Lett. (1895) 28, I send you the descriptive Particular of Cudworth corrected according to my last letter from the country and as I believe perfectly accurate.
2. A part, division, or section of a whole (in quot. 1516: an instalment of payment); a constituent part or element; spec. a division of an argument or discourse. In early use also: an organ or part of the body (cf. PARTICLE n. 1). Obs.
?a1425tr. Guy de Chauliac
Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 7, Knowyng
e nature of euery particler [?
c1425 Paris lyme; L.
particularum] & also
e posicions & plasmacions which
ai haue in al
e body..
u shalt redely knowe if a nerue be kut.
c1475(1392)
MS Wellcome 564 f. 116
v,
ou schalt fynde dietynge of woundis in
e heed and also of
oere particuler in general.
1516 R. FABYAN New Chron. Eng. VII. 320 For the which..he payed vnto the archebisshop iii.
M. marke, and to the other, by partyculers
XV.
M. marke.
1601 R. JOHNSON tr. G. Botero
Travellers Breviat (1603) 36 Let us devide the discourse..into foure particulars.
1630tr. G. Botero
Relations Famous Kingdomes World 496 The ancient Provinces were divided into three particulars.
1650 Truth's Conflict with Error ii. 54 If you please to minde the first particular in the
II. Verse (
For) which is a Rationative Particle.
1660 MARQUIS OF WORCESTER Water-comm. Engine 14 The Engine consisteth of the following Particulars.
1694 W. SALMON Pharmacop
ia Bateana I. vi. 195/2 This done, put in the several Particulars into the Liquor.
1732 SWIFT Proposal to pay off Debt of Nation in
Consideration Two Bills 24 The Question will then be..how I can make good the several Particulars of my Proposal, which I shall now lay open to the Publick.
1859 W. ANDERSON Discourses (1860) 17 In constructing the systematic argument, a ‘particular’, as it is called, will be bestowed on the Divine mercy.
3. a. With the. That which is particular, as opposed to general, universal, etc; the individual (obs.).
1551 T. WILSON Rule of Reason sig. Sj
v, The disceipt is, from the particular to the vniuersall.
1581 W. LAMBARDE Eirenarcha (1588)
II. vii. 223 To me, that am desirous to follow some order, and methode of discourse, the generall must alwayes go before the particular.
1631 R. BOLTON Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 35 Thou mightest haue bin that, either for the kinde, or for the particular.
1632 T. HAWKINS tr. P. Matthieu
Vnhappy Prosperitie 259 It is the interest both of the particular, and publike, that the wicked perish, and the good prosper.
1792 G. COLMAN Surrender of Calais III. ii. 57 Justice, madam,..Is comprehensive in effect; and when She points her sword to the particular, She aims at general good.
1809-10 S. T. COLERIDGE Friend (1818) III. 150 That union and interpenetration of the universal and the particular, which must ever pervade all works of decided genius and true science.
1870 J. H. NEWMAN Ess. Gram. Assent I. v. 135 Religion has to do with the real, and the real is the particular.
1959 P. F. STRAWSON Individuals v. 168 To the characterizing tie between Socrates and the universal,
dying, there corresponds the attributive tie between Socrates and the particular, his death.
1995 Church Times 20 Oct. 13/5 He replied with sympathy and dignity, but in a way that did not debilitate the discussion by moving it from the general to the particular.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 June 64/3 This representation, which Eco labels a Cognitive Type (CT), proceeds from the particular to the general.
b. in the particular: in the particular case; with regard to the individual instance. Opposed to in the general (see GENERAL adj. and n. Phrases 2d). Obs.
1639 G. DIGBY Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 41, I doe not think him more in the wrong in the particular, then I believe him right in the generall.
1823 I. D'ISRAELI Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 176 This critic was right in the main, but not by the by; in the general, not in the particular
1827 A. W. F
ONBLANQUE Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) I. 44 Though Mr. Canning was often in the general the avowed enemy of oppression, we never in any one single instance found him so in the particular.
1860 R. W. EMERSON Conduct Life iii. 1002 The hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built
up
which, offensive in the particular, yet compose valuable and effective masses.
4. a. Logic. A particular proposition See sense A. 1b.
1553 R. EDEN in tr. S. Münster
Treat. Newe India To Rdr. sig. Aiii, A pertiler proueth no vniuersall.
1620 T. GRANGER Syntagma Logicum 318 Inverted Method, is when particulars are disposed before universals.
1697tr. F. Burgersdijck
Monitio Logica II. 27 Now Indefinite Propositions are all here taken for Particulars.
1826 R. WHATELY Elem. Logic (1827) Index 347 Subaltern opposition, is between a Universal and a Particular of the same Quality.
1870 W. S. JEVONS Elem. Lessons Logic ix. 78 Of subalterns, the particular is true if the universal be true.
1902 J. M. BALDWIN Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 740/1 Universal predication as defined by Aristotle in the fourth chapter of the first book of the
Posterior Analytics, where it is defined as the negative of the particular.
1934 Philos. Rev 43 210 [Pierce's] theory of the syllogism..is based on the alien dictum..that universals do not and particulars do affirm existence.
1953 I. M. COPI Introd. Logic v. 134 A universal proposition and its corresponding particular.
b. Now chiefly Philos. A particular case or instance; an individual thing in relation to the whole class. Chiefly in pl. (opposed to generals or universals).
1609 SHAKESPEARE Sonnets xci. sig. F3
v, But these perticulers are not my measure, All these I better in one generall best.
1651 T. HOBBES Leviathan I. vi. 29 Reasoning is in generall words; but Deliberation for the most part is of Particulars.
1690 J. LOCKE Human Understanding IV. xi. §13 Having the
Idea of an Elephant, Phoenix, Motion, or an Angel, the first and natural enquiry is, Whether such a thing does any where exist? And this Knowledge is only of
Particulars.
1722 W. WOLLASTON Relig. of Nature iii. 41 We reason about particulars, or from them; but not
by them.
1773 LD. MONBODDO Orig. & Progress of Lang. (1774) I.
I. i. 5 These conceptions are either of particulars, viz. individual things, or of generals.
1874 W. WALLACE Logic of Hegel Introd. §13. 18 When the universal is made a mere form and coordinated with the particular, as if it were on the same level, it sinks into a particular itself.
1972 A. J. AYER Russell ii. 37 He has provisionally admitted the distinction between particulars and universals, and that between qualities and relations, but it may be doubted whether these distinctions are ultimate.
1991 Word 42 254 Locke accepts the idea that general terms can be used to signify or represent actual particulars.
5. a. A person's individual case; a personal concern or interest. for one's particular: for one's part (see PART n.1 Phrases 1d). Obs.
1565 in
Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1900) II. 204 As I will nocht..for my perticuleir be ane hynder..to the welefair of ane commoun cause.
1580 in D. Masson
Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 324 Nawyis willing to impeid the publick peax for his particular.
1623 J. H
EMING & H. C
ONDELL Wks. Shaks. Ep. Ded., Whilst we studie to be thankful in our particular, for the many fauors we haue receiued.
1657 W. RAND tr. P. Gassendi
Mirrour of Nobility II. 281 This losse..concerns the whole Common-wealth, as much as mine own particular.
1704 SWIFT Tale of Tub V., For my own particular, I cannot deny, that whatever I have said upon this occasion, had been more proper in a preface, and more agreeable to the mode which usually directs it there.
1724 W. WARBURTON Misc. Transl. 22 To return from the common Cause to what concerns our Particular.
1790 W. COWPER Let. 31 Dec. (1982) III. 449 We have all admired it..and for my own particular I return you my sincerest thanks.
1811 Breefe Mem. Spottiswood 74 Some Noblemen & Councellours (who regarded their own particulars more than his honour).
1877-8 H. TAYLOR Philip Van Arteveld I. ii in
Wks. I. 6 Then for your person, (Which for my own particular I love,) 'Tis said that you are hideous to behold.
b. Personal advantage or profit. Obs.
1597 R. HOOKER Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Ded. sig. A5
v, Such as doth not propose to it selfe
our owne particular the partiall and immoderate desire wherof poisoneth wheresoeuer it taketh place
a1617 S
IR J. M
ELVILLE Mem. Own Life (1735) 297 Some of the Lords whose Particulars he promised to set forward.
1653 in G. F. Warner
Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 17 If the gentleman had kept all the allowance for his own particular, I should have doubted his affection.
c. A private matter. Obs.
a1617 SIR J. MELVILLE Mem. Own Life (1735) 66 My Companion told the Emperor, that I had a Particular with his Majesty. 1653 in G. F. Warner Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 22 Going to England in about a fortnight upon some particulars of his own.
6. a. An individual, a person. Also spec.: a person not holding a public office. Obs.
1576 in J. D. Marwick
Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 51 That sindrye sewerall peces of oure communitie..ar gevin and set furth to sum particularis be your lordship.
1585 in
Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1914) VIII. 129 Bot we fand this particulewer assured in himself of your honors good mynd toward him.
1607 B. BARNES Divils Charter I. iv sig. B4, Those warres which vertue leuies against vice, Are onely knowne to some particulers Which haue them wrytten in their consciences.
1616 B. JONSON Cynthias Revels V. iv. 39 in
Wks. I, And, for your spectators, you behold them, what they are: The most choice particulars in court.
1656 EARL OF MONMOUTH tr. T. Boccalini
Ragguagli di Parnasso II. vi. 211 [This] was publiquely praised by all, and in private abhorred by every particular.
1741 W. WARBURTON Divine Legation Moses II. 30 Ahimelech is described without his guards..as a simple particular.
1766 Museum Rusticum VI. 75 In the case of a few particulars, who have public spirit, and private ability sufficient to lead them.
b. A single thing among a number of others, considered by itself; an individual article or thing. Obs.
1592 A. DAY Eng. Secretorie II. sig M3
v,
Synecdoche, when by one particular we vnderstand a number.
1651 T. HOBBES De Cive II. vii, They imagine that there may be a certaine Form of Government compounded of those three kinds we have spoken of, yet different from each particular.
1660 R. SHARROCK Hist. Veg. 3 The ways of increasing the particulars of each kinde.
1691 J. RAY Wisdom of God 214 That they [
sc. vertebres] should be all perforated in the middle..and each particular have a hole on each side.
1743 in
New Jersey Archives XII. 190 The above Particulars were stolen by one Robert Fryar.
1857 ‘B. CORNWALL’ Dramatic Scenes II. i. 208 Get thou to Raffaelle, fellow. Bid him sketch for thee each particular, The scene, the groups,
theall.
7. a. slang. A special friend; a favourite; a sweetheart. Now rare.
1577 N. T
HROCKMORTON Let 3 Mar. in W. Robertson
Hist. Scotl. (1759) II. App. 72 Your own particulars are not contented, lat by [= let alone] the rest.
1700 M. P
IX Beau Defeated III. 19 Besides him, I have two or three Interlopers, each fancying himself my Particular, when, for my part, I care not a straw for any of 'em.
1735 J. MILLER Man of Taste IV. 59 Know him, Madam! why he's my Intimate, my Particular, my very Shield and Buckler
1749 J. CLELAND Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 57 The whole company..now consisted of four gentlemen, including my particular (this was the cant-term of the house for one's gallant for the time).
1828 W. CARR Dial. Craven (ed. 2),
Particulars, old particulars, very old friends.
1842 T. P. THOMPSON Exercises I. 285 Except you and your particulars, who are living on the taxes.
1854 A. E. BAKER Gloss. Northamptonshire Words II. 95 They are very old
particulars.
1902 J. S. FARMER Slang,
Particular,..a favorite mistress: Fr.
une particulière.
b. Close acquaintance or relationship; intimacy; personal favour or regard. Obs. rare.
a1616 SHAKESPEARE Coriolanus (1623)
V. i. 3 He..Which was sometime his Generall: who loued him In a most deere particular.
1631 J. WEEVER Anc. Funerall Monuments 797 Out of his particular to their Towne, hee procured of Queene Elizabeth a Charter of Incorporation.
c. colloq. A thing specially characteristic of a place or person; a person's special choice or favourite thing; (sometimes) spec. a kind of Madeira.
[
1801 T. NEWTON Let. 12 Mar. in T. Jefferson
Papers (2006) XXXIII. 258, I have just arived a consignment of old Madeira wines; Brasil Quality & London Particular, from a Portugeze house.]
1860 F. GREENWOOD &
J. GREENWOOD Under Cloud I. ix. 187 The little keg of ‘particular’, on which he still keeps a favouring eye.
1902 J. S. FARMER Slang,
Particular,..a special choice:
e.g. to ‘ride one's own particular’, ‘a glass of one's particular’, etc.
C. adv. Particularly; individually (obs.). Now colloq. and Eng. regional.
1599 Househ. Bks. James VI & Anne 31 May, Allowit as the perticular subscryueit warrand beiris.
1615 W. A
DAMS Let. 29 Oct. in A. Farrington
Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 335, I will delliver them p'ticular to them that you hav derected too. I have receved a lleter p'ticular about the abeus.
1718 C. CIBBER Non-juror IV. 47 To shew my particular good Opinion of you, I'll do you a Favour, Mr. Charles.
1836 T. C. HALIBURTON Clockmaker 1st Ser. in R. Brown & D. Bennett
Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. (1982) 57 A considerable fair traveller, and most particular good bottom.
1861 DICKENS Great Expectations II. viii. 121 He wishes me most particular to write
what larks.
c1875 ‘B
RENDA’
Froggy's Little Brother (new ed.) ii. 22, I feels quite well, sir..and I wants to go home partiklar.
1897 J. C. SNAITH Fierceheart xii, It's nashgab on the pairt o' him, ye ken, tae say he was ‘perticular fou’.
1900 Windsor Mag. Apr. 614 He wanted a clean shirt Zatday and best clothes, and brushed his hat partic'ler.
1988 G. L
AMB Orkney Wordbk.,
Parteeclar, he's gettan on parteeclar efter his operation.
PHRASES
in particular adv.
1. One by one; individually, separately; in detail. Obs.
1502tr.
Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde)
I. vi. sig. e.iiii
v, For to declare what is to be seen of euery artycle in partyculer.
1611 Bible (
A.V.
)
1 Cor. xii. 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular [
R.V. severally members thereof].
1653 A. COLLINS Divine Songs & Meditacions 15 It is Faith with which we must apply, The merrits of our blessed Redeemer And to our selves each in particuler.
1737 S. BERINGTON Mem. G. di Lucca 20 Every Thing in General and Particular, we could think of.
2. As one distinguished from others of a number; especially, particularly. 
in more particular: more particularly (obs.).
1502tr.
Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde)
I. ii. sig. b.ii
v, It apperteyneth in partyculer & in especyal vnto y
e godfaders & godmoders.
1601 B. JONSON Cynthias Revels IV. iii, But in particuler, your long die-Note did arride me most.
1629 W. S
CLATER (J
R.) in W. Sclater
3 Serm. Ep. Ded., The other is, your vndeserued fauours towards my selfe in more particular.
a1650 T. MAY Reigne Henry II (1633) iii. 12 Oh what respects of private honour are To be in ballance put with these. but let Me speake in more particular.
1732 J. WESLEY Wks. (1830) I. 163, I observing the tears run down the cheeks of one of them in particular.
1859 J. W. CARLYLE Lett. III. 16 Ready to swear at ‘things in general’, and some things in particular.
1879 J. PAYN in
19th Cent. Dec. 994 The Bar, with its high road leading indeed to the woolsack, but with a hundred by-ways leading nowhere in particular.
1915 L. M. MONTGOMERY Anne of Island xix. 181 Anne, there's one thing in particular I like about
youyou're so ungrudging.
1956 A. HUXLEY Heaven & Hell 38 The most transporting..representation of ‘the Cherubim’ are those which show them..doing nothing in particular.
1993 Cricket World 3 Apr. 7/4 The sharpening bite of persistent economic recession has had its destructive effect on recreational sport generally and cricket in particular.
2002 Grocer 9 Mar. 50/1 We are presenting new products at the show, in particular a range of Jamaican patties.
3. Privately; in private. Obs.
1585 T. WASHINGTON tr. N. de Nicolay
Nauigations Turkie III. xxii. 112 b, They are waged either publikely, or of som in particular.
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 162 Preachers who offering us the kingdom of Heaven in publick, sollicit in particular a small benefice with the utmost importunity.
SPECIAL USES
S1. particular-fashioned adj. Obs.
1727 J. G. SCHEUCHZER tr. E. Kæmpfer
Hist. Japan I.
III. ii. 208 At the entry of the walk, which leads to the temple, stands..a *particular fashion'd gate, call'd
Torij.
1767 ‘CORIAT JUNIOR’ Another Traveller! I. 318 Rail at the believer, wrapt up in a particular-fashioned habit.
S2. Particular Baptist n. a member of a Baptist denomination holding the doctrine of particularism (opposed to General Baptist).
1717 (
title) Rules and Orders of the *Particular Baptist Fund.
1738 T. C
ROSBY Hist. Eng. Baptists I. 173 Those that have followed the Calvinistical scheme of doctrines, and from the principal point therein, personal election, have been termed Particular Baptists.
1841 T. MOORE Poet. Wks. iii. ix. 303 Well, my dear, of all men, that Particular Baptist At preaching a sermon, off hand, was the aptest.
1876 W. BESANT &
J. RICE Golden Butterfly II. xv. 231 A face which..conveyed the impression of a Particular Baptist who was also in the oil trade.
1970 Redemption Tidings 26 Nov. 3/1 Like all Christians, the orthodox Particular Baptists were affected by Wesleyanism in one way or another.
2002 Fort Worth (
Texas
)
Star-Telegram (Nexis) 27 June (Lifestyle section), ‘Baptists have never been uni-vocal,’ Lumpkin says. ‘Even in the 1600s, there were General and Particular Baptists who had differences.’
particular estate n. Law (now hist.) the first of the two or more successive estates into which it was formerly possible to divide a legal estate in land; an estate in actual possession, as opposed to any remainder (see quot. 1875).
1590 W. WEST Symbolæogr. I.
II. §311 He which hath the next immediate remainder or reuersion thereof shall also haue the *particuler estate of the same in possession.
1596 BACON Elem. Common Lawes (1635) 49 The Reversion is an estate left in the giver, after a particular estate made by him for yeares, life, or intaile.
1628 E. COKE 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 251 b, A particular estate of any thing that lies in grant cannot be forfeited by any grant in fee by deed.
1642tr. J. Perkins
Profitable Bk. viii. §495. 217 Upon which particular estate the remainder is expectant.
1875 K. E. DIGBY Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. v. 186 The smaller estate thus granted is called the ‘particular’ estate.
1982 Halsbury's Laws of Eng. xxxix. 323 Before 1926, the legal estate in fee simple in land could be divided into two or more successive estates. The first was the estate in possession, and was called the ‘particular estate’.
1990 D. R
OEBUCK Background of Common Law 74 If Frank granted land to George for life, then to Henry and his heirs, George had a particular estate and Henry had the remainder.
particular integral n. Math. (a) a solution of a differential equation obtained by assigning values to the arbitrary constants of the complete primitive of the equation; (b) a solution of a differential equation that cannot be obtained by assigning values to any or all of the arbitrary constants of the complete primitive; a singular solution (obs.).
1814 P. BARLOW New Math. & Philos. Dict., *
Particular Integral, in the Integral Calculus, is that which arises in the integration of any differential equation, by giving a particular value to the arbitrary quantity or quantities that enter into the general integral.
1820 G. PEACOCK Coll. Examples Differential & Integral Calculus II. xi. 477 A particular integral of the original equation, involving only one arbitrary function.
a1832 Encycl. Metrop. II. 23 This value of
y satisfies the proposed equation; but as it cannot be derived from the complete integral we have obtained above by assuming a particular value for one of the arbitrary constants, it ought to be considered as a particular integral.
1946 L. T
OFT & A. T. J. K
ERSEY Theory of Machines (ed. 5) xiv. 417 If
X is a fuction of
t, which satisfies (1), it is known as a particular integral.
1997 Proc. Royal Soc. A.
453 2612 On transforming back to
u we have a particular integral of the form
up =
a
+
a
w +
a
w2 + ..., where the
a
are just constant vectors.
particular intention n. see INTENTION n. 12b.
particular number n. Obs. rare each of the numbers of which a given number is the sum.
a1464 J. CAPGRAVE Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. G. IV. 12) (1983) 8 This noumbir..of sex is praysed for his *particuler noumberes, whech be on, too, and thre.
particular solution n. Math. = particular integral n. (a).
1736 J. COLSON tr. I. Newton Method of Fluxions 25 (heading) A *particular solution. 1738 Philos. Trans. 1735-6 (Royal Soc.) 39 325 In the Author's second Problem, or the Relation of the Fluxions being given to determine the Relation of the Fluents,..he [sc. Newton] begins with a particular Solution of it. He calls this Solution particular, because it extends only to such Cases, wherein the given Fluxional Equation either has been, or might have been, derived from some previous finite Algebraical Equation. 1848 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 138 40 The original equation is not altered by writing -b for b + 1; so that a particular solution may be readily deduced from the simple form. 1958 G. E. H. REUTER Elem. Differential Equations & Operators i 5 General solution = particular solution plus complementary function.
particular tenant n. Law Obs. the tenant of a particular estate.
1590 W. WEST Symbolæogr. I.
II. §311 An instrument testifiyng..that the *particuler tenant of landes..doth..agree, that he which hath the next immediate remainder or reuersion thereof shall also haue the particuler estate of the same in possession.
1766 W. BLACKSTONE Comm. Laws Eng. II. xviii. 274 Alienations by particular tenants, when they are greater than the law entitles them to make, and devest the remainder or reversion, are also forfeitures to him whose right is attacked thereby.
1859-63 New Amer. Cycl. 24/1 Delivery of possession to the first particular tenant vests possession in the freehold tenant also.
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