The Collaborative International Dictionary
Particularize \Par*tic"u*lar*ize\, v. i. To mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial; as, to particularize in a narrative.
Particularize \Par*tic"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Particularized; p. pr. & vb. n. Particularizing.] [Cf. F. particulariser.] To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. [Also spelled particularise.]
He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite,
but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.
--Atterbury.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from particular + -ize. Related: Particularized; particularizing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out. 2 (context transitive intransitive English) To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify. 3 (context intransitive English) To differentiate, make distinct from others.
WordNet
v. be specific about; "Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?" [syn: specify, particularise, specialize, specialise] [ant: generalize]
Usage examples of "particularize".
The message relating to a projected invasion by the enemies of Great Britain, we shall particularize in its proper place, when we come to record the circumstances and miscarriage of that design.
The entities thus particularized from the unity are products of the Intellectual-Principle which thus would be, to that extent, the separating agent.
Speaker explained to him some particulars of his duty, in the discharge of which, he was given to understand, he might depend upon the protection of the house, should he meet with any obstruction which he could not otherwise surmount, By the violence and caprice with which a great number of votes were contested on both sides, the scrutiny was protracted a long time, and the return attended with some extraordinary consequences, which shall be particularized among the transactions of the next year.
The reader, we hope, will excuse us for having thus particularized a transaction so interesting and extraordinary in all its circumstances.
Having thus particularized the operations of the allied army since the commencement of the campaign, we shall now endeavour to trace the steps of the king of Prussia, from the period to which his army was assembled for action.
The further proceedings on this mysterious affair, with the fate of the conspirators, will be particularized among the transactions of the following year.
This particularized view of its miniature saurian snout and pebbly skin defanged his hatred.
These were succeeded by the Lords Abergavenny, Conyers, Latimer, Fitzwalter, and Bray, with a multitude of others whom it would be tedious to particularize, neither can we call over the long roll of knights and esquires who subsequently vowed allegiance to their youthful sovereign.