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peculiar🔊

Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.

📑 Synonyms: odd strange uncommon unusual

Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.

📑 Synonyms: specific
💬 Quotations
And it was peculiar in their Temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by Rapine or Stealth at a greater distance, than much better Food provided for them at home.

(dated) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.

💬 Quotations
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

(dated) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.

A sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.

(UK, canon law) An ecclesiastical district, parish, chapel or church outside the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which it is situated.

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