Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PE-CUL-IAR, a. [L. peculiaris, from peculium, one's own property, from pecus, cattle.]

1. Appropriate; belonging to a person and to him only. Almost every writer has a peculiar style. Most men hate manners peculiar to themselves.
2. Singular; particular. The man has something peculiar in his deportment.
3. Particular; special. My fate is Juno's most peculiar care. – Dryden. [Most can not, in strict propriety, be prefixed to peculiar, but it is used to give emphasis to the word.]
4. Belonging to a nation, system or other thing, and not to others.