particular
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
2. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.Examples: "or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere."
3. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.Examples: "He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back."; "These women are more particular about their appearance."; "There is a scraper as well as a mat, and Mrs. Challenger is most particular."Synonyms: minute, precise, fastidious, anal-retentive, choosy, conscientious, dainty, exacting
4. (law) Containing a part only; limited.Examples: "a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder"
5. (law) Holding a particular estate.Examples: "a particular tenant"
6. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.Examples: "a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise"."
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A person's own individual case.Examples: "Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it."; "temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public[…]or such as concern our particular"
2. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)Examples: "When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals."
Definition source: Wiktionary