Particular

a. [Lat. particularis, It. particolare, particulare, Sp., Pg., & Pr. particular, Fr. particulier. See supra.]

1Sense 1. Relating to a part or portion of any thing; not general; pertaining to a single person or thing; individual; specific; special; as, particular election.

2Sense 2. Clearly distinguishable from others of its kind; not indefinite; specifiable; individual; as, each plant has its particular nutriment; most persons have a particular trait of character; he alludes to a particular person.

3Sense 3. Possessing some eminent or extraordinary quality; removed from the common mass or class of like creatures or objects; worthy of special attention or regard; not ordinary; notable; singular; as, he has brought no particular news.

4Sense 4. Concerned with, or attentive to, things single or distinct; entering into details; minute; scrupulous; precise; exact.

Of this prince there is little particular memory. Bacon.

5Sense 5. Hence, hard to suit; precise; nice; difficult; as, a man particular in diet or dress.

6Sense 6. (Law.) (a.) Containing a part only; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder. (b.) Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant. Blackstone.

7Sense 7. (Logic & Metaph.) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension;—applied to a specific concept, and the term by which it is denoted; sometimes also to an individual.

Particular Baptists, a class of Baptists who hold to the doctrine of a particular and individual election of all who become regenerate, in distinction from others of the denomination who reject this view. This denominational division exists chiefly in England.

Synonyms— Minute; individual; respective; appropriate; peculiar; especial; exact; specific; precise; critical; circumstantial. See MINUTE.

n. 1. A single point, or circumstance; a single instance; a distinct, separate, or minute part; a detail; a specialty; as, he told me all the particulars of the story. Addison.

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

2Sense 2. An individual; a private person.

It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the general good. J. Estinage.

3Sense 3. Special or private peculiarity, concern, character, or the like; individuality. “If the particulars of each person be considered.” Milton.

For his particular I will receive him gladly. Shak.

4Sense 4. A minute detail of things singly enumerated; a special and detailed account. [Obs.]

The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. Ayliffe.

In particular, specially; peculiarly; distinctly. “This, in particular, happens to the lungs.” Blackmore.

v. t. To particularize. [Obs.]