Pertaining to a single person or thing; not general; as, this remark has a particular application.

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.

Noting some property or thing peculiar. Of this prince there is little particular memory.

Attentive to things single or distinct; minute. I have been particular in examining the reasons of this law.

Single; not general.

Odd; singular; having something that eminently distinguishes one from others.

Singularly nice in taste; as a man very particular in his diet or dress.

Special; more than ordinary. He has brought no particular news.

Containing a part only; as a particular estate, precedent to the estate in remainder.

Holding a particular estate; as a particular tenant.

A single instance; a single point. I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal.

A distinct, separate or minute part; as, he told me all the particulars of the story.

An individual; a private person.

Private interest; as, they apply their minds to those branches of public prayer, wherein their own particular is moved.

Private character; state of an individual. For his particular, I will receive him gladly.

A minute detail of things singly enumerated. The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. In particular, specially; peculiarly; distinctly. This, in particular, happens to the lungs.