Particular /(?)/

Par·tic·u·lar

Particular

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.
— Shak.

Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne.
— Chaucer.
Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular.
Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth.
— Bacon.
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.
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.
Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder. (Law)
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. (Logic)

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: 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.

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.
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.
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. (Law)
The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written.
— Ayliffe.

Bill of particulars: See under Bill.
In particular: specially; specifically; peculiarly; particularly; especially.
To go into particulars: to relate or describe in detail or minutely.