PARTIC'ULAR, a. [Low L. particularis, from particula.]

1. Pertaining to a single person or thing; not general; as, this remark has a particular application.
2. Individual; noting or designating a single thing by way of distinction. Each plant has its particular nutriment. Most persons have a particular trait of character. He alludes to a particular person.
3. Noting some property or thing peculiar. Of this prince there is little particular memory. – Bacon.
4. Attentive to things single or distinct; minute. I have been particular in examining the reasons of this law.
5. Single; not general.
6. Odd; singular; having something that eminently distinguishes one from others.
7. Singularly nice in taste; as, a man very particular in his diet or dress.
8. Special; more than ordinary. He has brought no particular news.
9. Containing a part only; as, a particular estate, precedent to the estate in remainder. – Blackstone.
10. Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant. – Blackstone.

1. A single instance; a single point. I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal. – Bacon.
2. A distinct, separate or minute part; as, he told me all the particulars of the story. – Addison.
3. An individual; a private person. – L'Estrange.
4. Private interest; as, they apply their minds to those branches of public prayer, wherein their own particular is moved. [Not in use.] – Hooker.
5. Private character; state of an individual. For his particular, I will receive him gladly. [Not in use.] – Shak.
6. A minute detail of things singly enumerated. The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. [Not in use.] – Ayliffe. In particular, specially; peculiarly; distinctly. This, in particular, happens to the lungs. – Blackmore.

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. 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. Bacon.

   It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community. L'Estrange.

3. 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.

4. Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   For his particular I'll receive him gladly. Shak.

   If the particulars of each person be considered. Milton.

   Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public . . . or such as concern our particular. Whole Duty of Man.

5. 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.
6. 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. Ayliffe.

   Bill of particulars. See under Bill. - - In particular, specially; peculiarly. "This, in particular, happens to the lungs." Blackmore. -- To go into particulars, to relate or describe in detail or minutely.

7. 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.
8. Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.
   
   
   (b)
9. 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.