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." "Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne."
2.Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular. "Thine own particular wrongs." "Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth."
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.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.
6.(Logic) 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.
