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Particular \Par*tic"u*lar\, a. [OE. particuler, F. particulier, L. particularis. See Particle.]

  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.
    --Shak.

    [Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
    --Shak.

    Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne.
    --Chaucer.

  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.''
    --Shak.

    Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth.
    --Bacon.

  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.

  5. (Law)

    1. Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.

    2. Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.
      --Blackstone.

  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.

    Particular average. See under Average.

    Particular Baptist, one of a branch of the Baptist denomination the members of which hold the doctrine of a particular or individual election and reprobation.

    Particular lien (Law), a lien, or a right to retain a thing, for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, that particular thing.

    Particular redemption, the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See Calvinism.

    Syn: Minute; individual; respective; appropriate; peculiar; especial; exact; specific; precise; critical; circumstantial. See Minute.