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Peculiar   /pəkjˈuljər/  /pɪkjˈuljər/   Listen
adjective
Peculiar  adj.  
1.
One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. "And purify unto himself a peculiar people." "Hymns... that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself."
2.
Particular; individual; special; appropriate. "While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat." "My fate is Juno's most peculiar care."
3.
Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiar appearance.
Synonyms: Peculiar, Special, Especial. Peculiar is from the Roman peculium, which was a thing emphatically and distinctively one's own, and hence was dear. The former sense always belongs to peculiar (as, a peculiar style, peculiar manners, etc.), and usually so much of the latter as to involve feelings of interest; as, peculiar care, watchfulness, satisfaction, etc. Nothing of this kind belongs to special and especial. They mark simply the relation of species to genus, and denote that there is something in this case more than ordinary; as, a special act of Congress; especial pains, etc. "Beauty, which, either walking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces." "For naught so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give."


noun
Peculiar  n.  
1.
That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic. "Revenge is... the peculiar of Heaven."
2.
(Eng. Canon Law) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
Court of Peculiars (Eng. Law), a branch of the Court of Arches having cognizance of the affairs of peculiars.
Dean of peculiars. See under Dean, 1.





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"Peculiar" Quotes from Famous Books



... disaster in the present case; for those that are ready to assist us are many, and at hand also; yet it is in our power to seize upon this victory ourselves; and I think we ought to prevent the coming of those my father is sending to us for our assistance, that our success may be peculiar to ourselves, and of greater reputation to us. And I cannot but think this an opportunity wherein my father, and I, and you shall be all put to the trial, whether he be worthy of his former glorious performances, whether I be his son in reality, and whether you be really my ...
— The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem • Flavius Josephus
... earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow--Book 3 - Christmas Poems from 'round the World • Various
... distended with "wind." After a short time she throws her arms and her legs about convulsively, she beats her breast, tears her hair and clothes, laughs boisterously and screams violently; at other times she makes a peculiar noise; sometimes she sobs and her face is much distorted. At length she brings up enormous quantities of wind; after a time she bursts into a violent flood of tears, and then gradually comes ...
— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse
... where the mistress was probably dining, an old waitress was passing in and out, wearing a peculiar white dress rather faded in appearance, and an awkward-looking comb in her hair, after the old-fashioned style of those formerly in the service of the aristocratic class, of whom a few might still ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various
... more flattering, more healing, than all that was implied in Maxwell's earnestness, in the peculiar sympathy and kindness with which the elder man strove to win the younger's confidence; but George could not respond. His whole inner being was too sore; and his mind ran incomparably more upon the damnable letter that must be lying somewhere in the archives of the memory of the man talking ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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