particular
PARTICULAR, 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.
PARTICULAR, 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.
particularity
PARTICULARITY, n. Distinct notice or specification of particulars.
--Even descending to particularities, what kingdoms he should overcome.
1. Singleness; individuality; single act; single case.
2. Petty account; minute incident.
To see the titles that were most agreeable to such an emperor--with the like particularities--
3. Something belonging to single persons.
4. Something peculiar or singular.
I saw an old heathen altar with this particularity,that it was hollowed like a dish at one end, but not the end on which the sacrifice was laid.
5. Minuteness in detail. He related the story with great particularity.
particularize
PARTICULARIZE, v.t. To mention distinctly or in particulars; to enumerate or specify in detail.
He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite,but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.
PARTICULARIZE, v.i. To be attentive to single things.