Particular \Par*tic"u*lar\, a. [OE. particuler, F. particulier, L. particularis. See Particle.]

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. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. (Law)
   (a) Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.
   (b) Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant. --Blackstone.

6. (Logic) 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Particular \Par*tic"u*lar\, n.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. (Law) 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)