Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAR-TIC'U-LAR, n.

1. A single instance; a single point. I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal. – Bacon.
2. A distinct, separate or minute part; as, he told me all the particulars of the story. – Addison.
3. An individual; a private person. – L'Estrange.
4. Private interest; as, they apply their minds to those branches of public prayer, wherein their own particular is moved. [Not in use.] – Hooker.
5. Private character; state of an individual. For his particular, I will receive him gladly. [Not in use.] – Shak.
6. A minute detail of things singly enumerated. The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. [Not in use.] – Ayliffe. In particular, specially; peculiarly; distinctly. This, in particular, happens to the lungs. – Blackmore.