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partake (pärtāk), v. t. 1. To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share.
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Let every one partake the general joy. Dryden.
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2. To admit to a share; to cause to participate; to give a part to. [Obs.] Spencer.
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3. To distribute; to communicate. [Obs.] Shak.
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partaker (pärtākẽr), n. 1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator.
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Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27.
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Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark.
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2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. [Obs.]
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Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
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partan (pärt�n), n. [Cf. Ir. & Gael. partan.] (Zoöl.) An edible British crab. [Prov. Eng.]
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parted (pärtĕd), a. 1. Separated; divided.
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2. Endowed with parts or abilities. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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3. (Bot.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. Gray.
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Parter (?), n. One who, or which, parts or separates. Sir P. Sidney.
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Parterre (?), n. [F., fr. par on, by (L. per) + terre earth, ground, L. terra. See .] 1. (Hort.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
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2. The pit of a theater; the parquet. [France]
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Partheniad (?), n. [See .] A poem in honor of a virgin. [Obs.]
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Parthenic (?), a. [Gr. parqenikos, fr. parqenos a maid, virgin.] Of or pertaining to the Spartan Partheniæ, or sons of unmarried women.
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Parthenocissus prop. n. A genus of woody vines having disklike tips on the tendrils.
Syn. -- genus Parthenocissus.
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parthenogenesis (pärth�n�jĕn�sĭs), n. [Gr. parqenos a virgin + E. genesis.] 1. (Biol.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. , and .
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2. (Bot.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embryonic vesicle.
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Parthenogenetic, a. (Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms. -- Parthenogenetically, adv.
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Parthenogenitive (?), a. (Biol.) Parthenogenetic.
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Parthenogeny (?), n. (Biol.) Same as .
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Parthenon (pärth�nŏn), prop. n. [L., fr. Gr. Parqenwn, fr.parqenos a virgin, i. e., Athena, the Greek goddess called also Pallas.] A celebrated marble temple of Athena, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.
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Parthenope (pärthĕn�pē), n. [L., the name of a Siren, fr. Gr. Parqenoph.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.
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2. One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, discovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.
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Parthian (?), a. Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n. A native of Parthia.
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Coloq. Parthian arrow , an arrow discharged at an enemy when retreating from him, as was the custom of the ancient Parthians; hence, a parting shot.
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partial (pärsh�l), a. [F., fr. LL. partials, fr. L. pars, gen. partis, a part; cf. (for sense 1) F. partiel. See , n.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon. “Partial dissolutions of the earth.” T. Burnet.
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2. Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; biased; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial.
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Ye have been partial in the law. Mal. ii. 9.
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3. Having a predilection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond. “A partial parent.” Pope.
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Not partial to an ostentatious display. Sir W. Scott.
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4. (Bot.) Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole.
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Coloq. Partial differentials , Coloq. Partial differential coefficients , Coloq. Partial differentiation , etc. (of a function of two or more variables), the differentials, differential coefficients, differentiation etc., of the function, upon the hypothesis that some of the variables are for the time constant. -- Coloq. Partial fractions (Alg.), fractions whose sum equals a given fraction. -- Coloq. Partial tones (Music), the simple tones which in combination form an ordinary tone; the overtones, or harmonics, which, blending with a fundamental tone, cause its special quality of sound, or timbre, or tone color. See, also, .
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Partialism (?), n. Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.
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Partialist n. 1. One who is partial. [R.]
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2. (Theol.) One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect.
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Partiality (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. partialité.] 1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.
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2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting. Roget.
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Partialize (?), v. t. & i. To make or be partial. [R.]
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Partially adv. 1. In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed. Sir T. Browne.
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2. In a partial manner; with undue bias of mind; with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially. Shak.
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Partibility (?), n. [From .] The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance.
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Partible (?), a. [L. partibilis, fr. partire to part, divide, fr. L. pars: cf. F. partible. See .] Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible. “Make the molds partible.” Bacon.
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Participable (?), a. Capable of being participated or shared. [R.] Norris.
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Participant (?), a. [L. participans, p. pr. of participare: cf. F. participant. See .] Sharing; participating; having a share or part. Bacon.
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Participant, n. A participator; a partaker.
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Participants in their . . . mysterious rites. Bp. Warburton.
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Participantly, adv. In a participant manner.
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Participate (?), a. [L. participatus, p. p. of participare to participate; pars, partis, part + capere to take. See , and .] Acting in common; participating. [R.] Shak.
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Participate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Participated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Participating.] To have a share in common with others; to take a part; to play a role; to partake; -- followed by in, formerly by of; as, to participate in a debate; to participate in a discussion. Shak.
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So would he participate of their wants. Hayward.
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Mine may come when men
With angels may participate. Milton.
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Participate, v. t. 1. To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of. [R.]
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Fit to participate all rational delight. Milton.
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2. To impart, or give, or share of. [Obs.] Drayton.
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participating adj. Taking part in an activity; as, the participating organizations.
Syn. -- active.
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Participation (?), n. [F. participation, L. participatio.] 1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.
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These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
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What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself! Atterbury.
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2. Distribution; division into shares. [Obs.] Raleigh.
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3. Community; fellowship; association. [Obs.] Shak.
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Participative (pärtĭsĭp�tĭv), a. [Cf. F. participatif.] Capable of participating.
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Participator (pärtĭsĭpātẽr), n. [L.] One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.
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participatory (pärtĭsĭpŭtôr�), adj. Affording the opportunity for individual participation; as, participatory democracy.
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Participial (?), a. [L. participialis: cf. E. participal. See .] Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. Lowth.
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Participial, n. A participial word.
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Participialize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Participialized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Participializing.] To form into, or put in the form of, a participle. [R.]
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Participially, adv. In the sense or manner of a participle.
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Participle (?), n. [F. participe, L. participium, fr. particeps sharing, participant; pars, gen. partis, a part + capere to take. See .] 1. (Gram.) A part of speech partaking of the nature of both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.
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By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect. Earle.
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☞ Present participles, called also imperfect, or incomplete, participles, end in -ing. Past participles, called also perfect, or complete, participles, for the most part end in -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n. A participle when used merely as an attribute of a noun, without reference to time, is called an adjective, or a participial adjective; as, a written constitution; a rolling stone; the exhausted army. The verbal noun in -ing has the form of the present participle. See Verbal noun, under , a.
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2. Anything that partakes of the nature of different things. [Obs.]
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The participles or confines between plants and living creatures. Bacon.
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Particle (?), n. [L. particula, dim. of pars, gen partis, a part: cf. F. particule. See , and cf. .] 1. A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.
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The small size of atoms which unite
To make the smallest particle of light. Blackmore.
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2. Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue.
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The houses had not given their commissioners authority in the least particle to recede. Clarendon.
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3. (R. C. Ch.) (a) A crumb or little piece of consecrated host. (b) The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity. Bp. Fitzpatrick.
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4. (Gram.) A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.
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4. (Physics) An .
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Particle accelerator (?), n. (Physics) A large and expensive scientific instrument used by physicists to accelerate elementary particles (such as protons or electrons) to speeds near that of light, for the purpose of investigating the fundamental properties of matter; sometimes also called an atom smasher, since the particles thus accelerated are often directed at targets of atoms which are fragmented by the impact into their more fundamental component particles. The particles generated by impact of a beam in an accelerator on its target are detected by various types of detecting apparatus, and procedures are required to sort and identify the many particles created. The fundamental particles generated by impacts in a particle accelerator are often those not actually present inside atoms; and in certain types of particle accelerator, such as the colliding beam accelerator, the impact which generates energetic particles is with other fundamental particles, and not with atoms.
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Particle physics (?), n. That branch of physics which investigates the nature of matter, and in particular the properties and behavior of the elementary particles (fundamental particles), of which matter is composed. Included in this field is the more specialized branch of .
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parti-color v. t. To make motley or parti-colored.
Syn. -- motley.
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parti-colored, a. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly. Same as . [Also spelled parti-coloured.]
Syn. -- motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured.
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Particular (?), a. [OE. particuler, F. particulier, L. particularis. See .] 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.
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[Make] each particular hair to stand an end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Shak.
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Seken in every halk and every herne
Particular sciences for to lerne. Chaucer.
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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.
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Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth. Bacon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Coloq. Particular average . See under . -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. Particular redemption , the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See .
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Syn. -- Minute; individual; respective; appropriate; peculiar; especial; exact; specific; precise; critical; circumstantial. See .
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Particular (?), 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.
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Particulars which it is not lawful for me to reveal. Bacon.
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It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community. L'Estrange.
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2. Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc. [Obs.]
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For his particular I'll receive him gladly. Shak.
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If the particulars of each person be considered. Milton.
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Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public . . . or such as concern our particular. Whole Duty of Man.
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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.
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The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. Ayliffe.
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Coloq. Bill of particulars . See under . -- Coloq. In particular , specially; specifically; peculiarly; particularly; especially. “This, in particular, happens to the lungs.” Blackmore. -- Coloq. To go into particulars , to relate or describe in detail or minutely.
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particularise v. t. Same as . [Chiefly Brit.]
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particularised particularized adj. Stated or described in detail.
Syn. -- circumstantial, detailed.
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Particularism (?), n. [Cf. F. particularisme.] 1. A minute description; a detailed statement. [R.]
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2. (Theol.) The doctrine of particular election.
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3. (German Politics) Devotion to the interests of one's own kingdom or province rather than to those of the empire.
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Particularist, n. [Cf. F. particulariste.] One who holds to particularism. -- Particularistic, a.
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Particularity (?), n.; pl. Particularities (#). [Cf. F. particularité.] 1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.
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2. That which is particular; as: (a) Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. “An old heathen altar with this particularity.” Addison. (b) Special circumstance; minute detail; particular. “Even descending to particularities.” Sir P. Sidney. (c) Something of special or private concern or interest.
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Let the general trumpet blow his blast,
Particularities and petty sounds
To cease! Shak.
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Particularization (?), n. The act of particularizing. Coleridge.
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Particularize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Particularized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Particularizing (?).] [Cf. F. particulariser.] To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. [Also spelled particularise.]
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He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury.
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Particularize, v. i. To mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial; as, to particularize in a narrative.
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Particularly, adv. 1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly.
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2. In an especial manner; especially; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure.
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The exact propriety of Virgil I particularly regarded as a great part of his character. Dryden.
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Particularment (?), n. A particular; a detail. [Obs.]
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Particulate (pärtĭk�lāt), v. t. & i. [See .] To particularize. [Obs.]
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Particulate (pärtĭk�l�t), a. 1. Having the form of a particle.
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2. Referring to, or produced by, particles, such as dust, minute germs, etc. [R.]
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The smallpox is a particulate disease. Tyndall.
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3. Composed of particles; finely divided.
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particulate (pärtĭk�l�t), n. Matter composed of particles; -- often used in the pl.; as, the quantity of particulates in auto exhaust is strictly regulated.
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Parting (pärtĭng), a. [From , v.] 1. Serving to part; dividing; separating.
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2. Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute. “Give him that parting kiss.” Shak.
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3. Departing. “Speed the parting guest.” Pope.
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4. Admitting of being parted; partible.
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Coloq. Parting fellow , a partner. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Coloq. Parting pulley . See under . -- Coloq. Parting sand (Founding), dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation. -- Coloq. Parting strip (Arch.), in a sash window, one of the thin strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window box to separate the weights. -- Coloq. Parting tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.
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