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noun

Particular n.

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." "It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community."

2.

Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc. (Obs.) "For his particular I'll receive him gladly." "If the particulars of each person be considered." "Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public... or such as concern our particular."

3.

(Law) 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. "The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written."

Bill of particulars. See under Bill.

In particular, specially; specifically; peculiarly; particularly; especially. "This, in particular, happens to the lungs."

To go into particulars, to relate or describe in detail or minutely.

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"In particular" Quotes from Famous Books

... effect, God has imprinted in a miraculous manner the sign of the cross, and the instruments of our Lord's passion in dark and bloody colors, on the bodies and garments of thousands. The appearance of these signs in Germany, in particular, does not indeed denote that the Germans have been peculiarly distinguished in guilt, but rather that they should set the example to the rest of the world, by being the first to undertake a crusade against ...

— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott

... George Washington's boyhood,—unfortunately there are not many stories,—which is to the point. His father had taken a great deal of pride in his blooded horses, and his mother afterward took pains to keep the stock pure. She had several young horses that had not yet been broken, and one of them in particular, a sorrel, was extremely spirited. No one had been able to do anything with it, and it was pronounced thoroughly vicious as people are apt to pronounce horses which they have not ...

— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott

... just say, that the next day we anchored off Honoluloo, the chief town, where the king and his court resided; and that we carried on some trading with the people, his majesty in particular, and taking some half-a-dozen Sandwich islanders on board to replace the men we had lost, and, as old Tom observed, any others we might lose, we sailed for the ...

— Tales of the Sea - And of our Jack Tars • W.H.G. Kingston

... able to become the expression of the astral body which has now become independent. They thus make it possible for the physical body to become a physiognomic copy of its astral body. On the other hand, higher spiritual beings, in particular the Lords of Form and of Motion, reach down into the physical and etheric bodies, as far as these are developing during the Sun periods, regardless of the independent astral body. Their intervention comes from the Sun, ...

— An Outline of Occult Science • Rudolf Steiner

... it was desolate, and in the shadow of a coming storm, looked strangely lowering. Within—opened a smaller room; there, however, the blind of the single casement was closed; through the deep gloom few details of furniture were apparent. These few I amused myself by puzzling to make out; and, in particular, I was attracted by the outline of a ...

— Villette • Charlotte Bronte

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