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Singular   /sˈɪŋgjələr/   Listen
adjective
Singular  adj.  
1.
Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. (Obs.) "And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly."
2.
Engaged in by only one on a side; single. (Obs.) "To try the matter thus together in a singular combat."
3.
(Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual. "The idea which represents one... determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound."
4.
(Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
5.
(Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; opposed to dual and plural.
6.
Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. "So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect."
7.
Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
8.
Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; often implying disapproval or censure. "His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash." "To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise."
9.
Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique. "These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind."
Singular point in a curve (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point.
Singular proposition (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign.
Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass.
Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual.
Synonyms: Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic.


noun
Singular  n.  
1.
An individual instance; a particular. (Obs.)
2.
(Gram) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.





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... as it were to the policy of Peter the Great, labored for popular reform, and for the introduction into his dominions of the ideas and civilization of Western Europe. The reform which will ever give his name a place in the list of those rulers who have conferred singular benefits upon their subjects, was the emancipation, by a series of imperial edicts, of the Russian serfs, who made up more than 45,000,000 of the population of the empire. More than half of these serfs belonged to the Crown, and were known as ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers
... singular feature this in ancient battles. Is it simply and solely Oriental, or general, and Hellenic also? Has it any analogue nowadays anywhere? Probably with Egyptian troops in the Soudan ...
— Cyropaedia - The Education Of Cyrus • Xenophon
... confidentially, on which the latter nodded his head, and called to his own porter. The man ran out and helped to unload the little hand-cart, which contained, besides two trunks, buckets, brushes, boxes of singular shape, and an infinity of packages and utensils which the youngest of the new-comers, who had climbed into the imperial, stowed away with such celerity that Oscar, who happened to be smiling at his mother, now standing on the other side of the street, saw none ...
— A Start in Life • Honore de Balzac
... verse 17, comes again into the next poem, addressed to Jerusalem as appears from the singular form of the verbs and pronouns preserved throughout by the Greek (but only in 20b by the Hebrew) which to the disturbance of the metre adds the name of the city—probably a marginal note that by the hand of some copyist has been drawn into the text. In verse 21 the people, ...
— Jeremiah • George Adam Smith
... of men,—or rather, a class of singular men. I choose the latter phrase, because I think that the singularities do not arise from the employment, but characterize the men who are most likely to gravitate toward it. A great philosopher, whom nobody knows, once stated the Problem of Humanity ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various


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