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1. And purify unto himself a peculiar people.Titus ii. 14. Hymns . . . that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself.Hooker. While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat.Milton. My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.Dryden. Syn. Peculiar, Special, Especial. Peculiar is from the Roman peculium, which was a thing emphatically and distinctively one's own, and hence was dear. The former sense always belongs to peculiar (as, a peculiar style, peculiar manners, etc.), and usually so much of the latter as to involve feelings of interest; as, peculiar care, watchfulness, satisfaction, etc. Nothing of this kind belongs to special and especial. They mark simply the relation of species to genus, and denote that there is something in this case more than ordinary; as, a special act of Congress; especial pains, etc. Beauty, which, either walking or asleep,Milton. For naught so vile that on the earth doth live,Shak. Revenge is . . . the peculiar of Heaven.South. Peculiarity The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner.Macaulay. |
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