The Collaborative International Dictionary
Personal \Per"son*al\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*al), a. [L. personalis: cf. F. personnel.]
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Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
Every man so termed by way of personal difference.
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Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain.
--Locke. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.
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Done in person; without the intervention of another. ``Personal communication.''
--Fabyan.The immediate and personal speaking of God.
--White. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
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(Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.
Personal action (Law), a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action.
Personal equation. (Astron.) See under Equation.
Personal estate or Personal property (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature.
Personal identity (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness.
Personal pronoun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals.
Personal representatives (Law), the executors or administrators of a person deceased.
Personal rights, rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property.
Personal tithes. See under Tithe.
Personal verb (Gram.), a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons.
WordNet
n. movable property (as distinguished from real estate) [syn: personal property, personalty, private property]
Usage examples of "personal estate".
I would have thought they'd have paid big bucks for John Jeremy Garrett's personal estate.
Your real estate and your personal estate would then be returned to you.
He received the house immediately beside that of his father's, as well as forty acres--ten of adjoining land, plus thirty of orchard, pasture, woodland, and swamp--and slightly less than a third of his father's personal estate, since alone of the three sons he had been provided a college education.
Congress urged such measures early on to frustrate the mischievous machinations, and restrain the wicked practices of these men (resolution of January 2, 1776), and on November 27, 1777, it urged that the states confiscate and make use of all the real and personal estate therein, of such of their inhabitants and other persons who have forfeited the same.
Maybe her uncle would know what her personal estate arrangements are.
These lands were well peopled, a personal estate of Pharaoh and on a route that carried much trade from the north in times of peace.
It was in among a grouping of much more mundane files having to do with what she was loosely calling Jongleur's personal estate—.
It was in among a grouping of much more mundane files having to do with what she was loosely calling Jongleur's personal estate-powers of attorney, links to various legal firms and accounting operations, instructions to J Corporation management.
Clarence Branson's personal estate, not including any holdings in Branson Toys and Tools.