One's own; pertaining to one, not to many; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; with to, belonging specially or particularly.… Particular; distinct; individual.Special; particular; select.Singular; unusual; uncommon; odd: as, the man has something peculiar in his manner.A religious denomination found in Essex, Sussex, Surrey, and principally in Kent, England, which believes that one may immediately cease from sin and become perfect in moral life and in spiritual perception. They therefore have no preachers, creeds, ordinances, or church organization. They also profess to rely wholly upon prayer for the cure of disease. Also called Plumstead Peculiars, from the place in which the sect originated. Synonyms Particular, etc. See special.n. Exclusive property; that which belongs to one to the exclusion of others.n. A person or thing that is peculiar: as, the Plumstead Peculiars.n. In canon law, a particular parish or church which is exempted from the jurisdiction of the ordinary or bishop in whose diocese it lies, such as a royal peculiar (a sovereign's free chapel, exempt from any jurisdiction but that of the sovereign); a parish or church pertaining to an archbishop, bishop, dean, chapter, or prebendary, etc., which is not under the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which it is situated, but under that of some other archbishop, bishop, dean, etc.n. In colonial and provincial Massachusetts, a parish, precinct, or district not yet erected into a town; a portion set off from a town and made independent of it in respect to all or most matters of local administration, but not in respect to choosing a representative to the General Court.n. A mistress.n. In Oxford, a nickname for an Evangelical.
