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particularize, v.|pəˈtɪkjʊləraɪz|
[a. F. particularise-r (15th c. in Littré): see -ize.]
1. trans. To render particular (as opposed to general); to apply, appropriate, or restrict to a particular thing or class. rare.
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 44 And who can directly discusse, or particularize the æquiuocation, and ouer-great generalitie of Interregni, and Auiti sanguinis propago? 1677G. Hickes in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 41 To particularise the general information..I have sent you the names of the most considerable and mischievous of them. 1876F. H. Bradley Eth. Stud. iv. 135 You can not particularize a definition so as to exhaust any sensible object.
2. To mention or describe particularly; to name or state specially, or one by one; to speak or treat of individually, or in detail; to specify. (The usual sense.)
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 321, I dare not Particularise her Description according to my conceit. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden 154 Except he particularize and stake downe the verie words. 1674Essex Papers (Camden) I. 161, I doe beleeve the Howse of Commons will Vote the King a Supply..but not particularise the sume. 1741Earl of Orrery 7 July in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 241 In mentioning your friends, I must particularize Mr. Pope. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy Pref. 6 Various causes, needless to particularise here. 1884Sir J. Bacon in Law Times Rep. L. 345/1 The plaintiffs..might particularise more distinctly the grounds on which they claim..relief.
b. intr. To mention, speak or treat of, or attend to, particulars or details; to go into detail.
1601Holland Pliny xxxvi. xiv. 580 They would require many volumes to..particularize upon them. 1626C. Potter tr. Sarpi's Hist. Quarrels 196 It sufficed..to say they had many Reasons, being not able to particularize in any. 1670Clarke Nat. Hist. Nitre 68 But to a little more particularise. 1709E. Ward tr. Cervantes 34 He took such Pains to particularize upon every Point of his Happiness. 1834W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. xiii, In our hasty narrative of the fight, we have not paused to particularize.
3. trans. To place or represent apart as an individual thing; to render distinct or separate; to individualize, distinguish, differentiate. rare.
1643Digby Observ. Relig. Med. (1644) 84 Particularize a few drops of the Sea, by filling a glasse full of them; then that glasse-full is distinguished from all the rest of the watery Bulke. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 203 The place..not sufficiently particularized to his memory in so wide a common. 1893Black & White 24 June 764/2 In dress, in manner..he particularises himself from his fellows.
†b. intr. To be distinguished. Obs. rare.
1637Earl of Monmouth tr. Malvezzi's Romulus & Tarquin 45 Beyond the common equalitie amongst brethren, they did particularise in being equally..at the same time borne.
Hence parˈticularized ppl. a.; parˈticularizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1611Cotgr., Particularisé, Particularized,..distinguished. 1632G. Herbert Priest to Temple xiv, If the Parson were ashamed of particularizing in these things, he were not fit to be a parson. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 394 If then it were spoken..after a particularizing way. 1841Borrow Zincali I. xii. i. 207 We may be well excused from particularizing. 1851Kitto Bible Illustr. (1867) VIII. 440 He dwelt with particularizing emphasis on his persecution of the believers in Jesus. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea (Low) xx. §840. 462 Irrespective of the particularized facts and phenomena which we have been considering. |