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1537 W. Turner tr. Urbanus Regius Compar. Olde Learnynge & Newe sig. Fviii^v Onely god ought to raygne in the conscience, in whose hande peculyarly be menes soules.

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature i, in Compl. Plays (1985) II. 68 Man..whych is our owne elect,..Above the others peculyarly select To do us homage.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 194 Thinges that were his owne peculiarly.

a1650 G. Boate Nat. Hist. Ireland (1726) 86 A certain sort of sea-coal..wonderful small, and peculiarly called comb.

1662 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words (ed. 2) Chare, a kind of fish which breeds most peculiarly in Winandermere in Lancashire.

1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion vii. 89 Any Vault that were exquisitely built, would peculiarly answer to some determinate Note or other.

1754 T. Sherlock Several Disc. preached at Temple Church I. vii. 211 As if the Remission of our Sins was to be ascribed peculiarly to the Passion.

1815 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 12/1 He would bring him to account for his conduct to himself peculiarly.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 6 Many of his ideas were in the air, and did not belong to him peculiarly.

1903 W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk xiv. 255 Songs of undoubted Negro origin and wide popular currency, and songs peculiarly characteristic of the slave.

1987 F. Wyndham Other Garden ii. 33 A touch of the gruff bravado that I had come to recognize as peculiarly hers.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. vi. §1 Wherby the faithfull haue alway been peculiarly seuered from the prophane nations.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxx. 13) The very course of the woords requireth, that hee should make mention here peculiarly of his own dewtie.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 391 Table of shew-bread..made of that gold, which his Father David had peculiarly prepared for that purpose.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. v. vii. 171 To render the Lot of one Man, more peculiarly unhappy than that of others. View more context for this quotation

1785 J. Beekman Let. 29 Nov. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1000 The consequent misfortune of disappointing our Friends, which cannot but be peculiarly unpleasant to one who always wishes, as formerly, to observe the strictest Punctuality.

1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 53 It was Mary's voice,..singing a little air of which her husband was peculiarly fond.

1891 H. B. Harris Apol. Aristides i. 5 The Arabs regard the spot as peculiarly sacred.

1926 J. Buchan Dancing Floor xi. 206 Black George had smoked a peculiarly evil type of Greek tobacco.

1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again i. 44 Coming to Europe after seven years in the purely Asiatic civilization and barbarism of Ceylon, I was peculiarly sensitive to the civilized and barbarous variations in European countries.

1998 N. Hornby About Boy (1999) xxiv. 179 Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it happened to friends it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant experience.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. iv. 93 If you knew it, you are peculiarly situated: very near happiness; yes; within reach of it.

1865 R. Druitt Rep. Cheap Wines viii. 80 A red Barbera, a Piedmontese wine, at 20s., a peculiarly-flavoured, fuller-bodied, rough wine.

1897 E. Edwards Journey through S. Afr. 48 Kimberley struck me as a very peculiarly built town, being chiefly composed of buildings into whose construction corrugated iron largely entered.

1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers xiv. 389 Between the two men the friendship developed peculiarly.

1953 K. von Frsich Dancing Bees 15 Another peculiarly shaped part of the hind leg is the tibia.

1989 M. Birkhead & T. Birkhead Survival Factor (BNC) 40 One leaf had suddenly started to behave very peculiarly.