PER'SONAL, a. [L. personalis.] Belonging to men or women, not to things; not real.

1. Belonging to men or women, not to things; not real. Every man so termed by way of personal difference only. – Hooker.
2. Relating to an individual; affecting individuals; peculiar or proper to him or her, or to private actions or character. The words are conditional; if thou doest well; and so personal to Cain. – Locke. Character and success depend more on personal effort than on any external advantages. – J. Hawes. So we speak of personal pride, personal reflections.
3. Pertaining to the corporal nature; exterior; corporal; as, personal charms or accomplishments. Addison.
4. Present in person; not acting by representative; as, a personal interview. The immediate and personal speaking of God almighty to Abraham, Job and Moses. – White. Personal estate, in law, movables; chattels; things belonging to the person; as money, jewels, furniture, &c. as distinguished from real estate in land and houses. Personal action, in 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; an action founded on contract or on tort or wrong; as an action on a debt or promise, or an action for a trespass, assault or defamatory words; opposed to real actions, or such as concern real property. – Blackstone. Personal identity, in metaphysics, sameness of being, of which consciousness is the evidence. Personal verb, in grammar, a verb conjugated in the three persons; thus called in distinction from an impersonal verb, which has the third person only. – Encyc.

A movable. [Not in use.]

1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
   
   

   Every man so termed by way of personal difference. Hooker.

2. A movable; a chattel.
3. 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.

4. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.
   
   
   Addison.
5. Done in person; without the intervention of another.
   
   
   "Personal communication." Fabyan.

   The immediate and personal speaking of God. White.

6. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
7. 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 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.