American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2

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Author: Noah Webster

Particular

PARTIC’ULAR, a. [Low L. particularis, from particula.]

1. Pertaining to a single person or thing; not general; as, this remark has a particular application.

2. Individual; noting or designating a single thing by way of distinction. Each plant has its particular nutriment. Most persons have a particular trait of character. He alludes to a particular person.

3. Noting some property or thing peculiar.

Of this prince there is little particular memory.

4. Attentive to things single or distinct; minute. I have been particular in examining the reasons of this law.

5. Single; not general.

6. Odd; singular; having something that eminently distinguishes one from others.

7. Singularly nice in taste; as a man very particular in his diet or dress.

8. Special; more than ordinary. He has brought no particular news.

9. Containing a part only; as a particular estate, precedent to the estate in remainder.

10. Holding a particular estate; as a particular tenant.

PARTIC’ULAR, n. A single instance; a single point.

I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal.

1. A distinct, separate or minute part; as, he told me all the particulars of the story.

2. An individual; a private person.

3. Private interest; as, they apply their minds to those branches of public prayer, wherein their own particular is moved. [Not in use.]

4. Private character; state of an individual.

For his particular, I will receive him gladly. [Not in use.]

5. A minute detail of things singly enumerated.

The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. [Not in use.]

In particular, specially; peculiarly; distinctly.

This, in particular, happens to the lungs.

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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Particular," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed March 28, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DAIR8Q7DBWAU71D.

MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Particular." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 28 Mar. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DAIR8Q7DBWAU71D.

Harvard: Webster, N, 'Particular' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 28 March 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DAIR8Q7DBWAU71D.