peculiar people
/pɪˌkjuːlɪə ˈpiːpl/noun
1In Christian use, applied to those chosen by God for salvation (the elect); also to the members of the Christian Church, or of a particular Christian sect or denomination, regarded as such.
2Applied to the Jewish people.
3Usually in form Peculiar People. (The members of) an evangelical Christian denomination founded in Essex in 1838 and rejecting medicine in favour of faith healing. Now historical.
- The group had a chapel in Plumstead, south London, until the 1930s, from which they were sometimes called the Plumstead Peculiars. In 1956 they took the name of the Union of Evangelical Churches..
Origin
Early 16th century; earliest use found in Robert Fabyan (d. 1513), chronicler. From peculiar + people.
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