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noun

Specialty n. (pl. specialties)

Particularity. "Specialty of rule hath been neglected."

A particular or peculiar case. (Obs.)

(Law) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified. "Let specialties be therefore drawn between us."

That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality. "Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty, their pet subject."

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"Specialty" Quotes from Famous Books

... religion a wall was built, so that there were believers inside the wall and unbelievers outside, round this spiritual forthstreaming no walls are to be built, but the waters are to spread everywhere without limitation, without exception. That is the specialty in the message of Theosophy. It belongs to all alike. As much yours, though you do not call it by that name, perhaps, as it is theirs who call it by that name. It is only living, because it lives ...

— London Lectures of 1907 • Annie Besant

... naval officers first and specialists afterwards. This means that officers will take up at least one specialty, such as ordnance, construction, or engineering. This is practically what is done now, only some of the specialists, like the pay officers and naval constructors, are not of the line. It is proposed to make them all ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... attractive, all of them for the historical portraits they contain, and the first, besides, for its merit as an example of a Gothic interior and its associations with the order of the Garter, the knights of which society are installed in it. The specialty of the Waterloo room is the series of portraits of the leaders, civil and military, English and continental, of the last and successful league against Napoleon. They are nearly all by Lawrence, and of course admirable in their delineation of character. ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various

... found that everybody knew everybody at the Cafe Procope, and that the specialty of the establishment was dominoes—just as the specialty of the Cafe de la Regence is chess. There were games going on before long at almost every table, and groups of lookers-on gathered about those who enjoyed the ...

— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

... Metropolitan Museum. My two sons collaborated on the furniture. They wanted something ancient and Spanish in feeling, but with more comfort than antiques usually give. A slight modification of the lines accomplished that. My own contributions are not visible. Music of the baroque period is my specialty." ...

— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley

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