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/ɪn pərtˈɪkjələr/ Listen

noun

Particular n.

1.

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." "It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community."

2.

Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc. (Obs.) "For his particular I'll receive him gladly." "If the particulars of each person be considered." "Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public... or such as concern our particular."

3.

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

Bill of particulars. See under Bill.

In particular, specially; specifically; peculiarly; particularly; especially. "This, in particular, happens to the lungs."

To go into particulars, to relate or describe in detail or minutely.

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"In particular" Quotes from Famous Books

... information, and Captain Martin determined to act upon it, in the hopes of capturing the marauder. Being engaged in particular service, the master of the lugger was allowed to proceed on his way, and the ...

— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston

... Protestant when young Walter was born, but his mother seems to have remained a Catholic. In the persecution under Mary, she, as we learn from Foxe, went into Exeter to visit the heretics in gaol, and in particular to see Agnes Prest before her burning. Mrs. Raleigh began to exhort her to repentance, but the martyr turned the tables on her visitor, and urged the gentlewoman to seek the blessed body of Christ in heaven, not on earth, and this with so ...

— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse

... God. But when an eminent sanctity has brought men more to original justice, and has, in some measure, reestablished them in a state of innocence, it has sometimes pleased the Almighty to restore them to some of the privileges which man enjoyed in those times, and, in particular, this control over animals. This is what is seen in well-authenticated acts of many saints, and, in what St Bonaventure relates of St. Francis, on the testimony of ocular witnesses, as well as on the evidence of facts which were of ...

— The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi • Father Candide Chalippe

... beneficiary of EU aid, equal to about 4% of GDP. The economy has improved steadily over the last few years, as the government has tightened policy in the run-up to Greece's entry into the EU's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on 1 January 2001. In particular, Greece has cut its budget deficit to below 1% of GDP and tightened monetary policy, with the result that inflation fell from 20% in 1990 to 3.1% in 2000. Major challenges remaining include the reduction of unemployment and further restructuring of the economy, including ...

— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... sunshine he saw that the storm had been more violent than any had supposed; since the wall of ice, which before had been solid, was now burst and riven in many places, and in particular to the eastward, where a broad path of water lay before them almost like a canal, but winding here and there. Towards this Snorri steered, and entered it ...

— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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