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Entry 9 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Particular

/pẽrt-ĭk'-yəl-ẽr/ · Par·tic·u·lar · IPA /pɑrˈtɪk.jə.lɚ/
01 a. Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; …
  1. 1.
    Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation.
    “[Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.” — Shak.
    “Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne.” — Chaucer.
  2. 2.
    Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular.
    “Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth.” — Bacon.
  3. 3.
    Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.
  4. 4.
    Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.
  5. 5.
    Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.(Law)
  6. 6.
    Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise.(Logic)
Phrases & compounds
Particular average — See under Average.
Particular Baptist — one of a branch of the Baptist denomination the members of which hold the doctrine of a particular or individual election and reprobation.
Particular lien — a lien, or a right to retain a thing, for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, that particular thing.
Particular redemption — the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See Calvinism.
Syn. Minute; individual; respective; appropriate; peculiar; especial; exact; specific; precise; critical; circumstantial. See Minute.
02 n. A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be consid…
  1. 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.” — Bacon.
    “It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community.” — L'Estrange.
  2. 2.
    Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc.[Obs.]
    “For his particular I'll receive him gladly.” — Shak.
    “If the particulars of each person be considered.” — Milton.
    “Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public . . . or such as concern our particular.” — Whole Duty of Man.
  3. 3.
    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.(Law)
    “The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written.” — Ayliffe.
Phrases & compounds
Bill of particulars — See under Bill.
In particular — specially; specifically; peculiarly; particularly; especially.
To go into particulars — to relate or describe in detail or minutely.