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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/sawpub/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114SAW Publishing\u2019s Word of the Week (WOW) program is a vocabulary supplement built around hymns and Bible verses.\u00a0 Each lesson contains a Webster\u2019s 1828 Dictionary definition, Scripture reference, and examples that encourage students to use new vocabulary in daily life.\u00a0 To find out more about the program, see our post entitled Boost Your Student’s Vocabulary with our FREE Word of the Week<\/a>. To receive the FREE Word of the Week lesson the Monday before it is posted, sign up for the WOW email below.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n **Click here<\/a> for a downloadable PDF of the full lesson.<\/p>\n Abridged from Webster\u2019s 1828 Dictionary<\/em><\/p>\n PECU’LIAR,<\/strong> adjective<\/em><\/p>\n belonging to a person and to him only; unusual; special<\/p>\n PECU’LIAR,<\/strong> adjective<\/em><\/p>\n [L. peculiaris<\/em>, from peculium<\/em>, one\u2019s own property, from pecus<\/em>, cattle.]<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0<\/strong>Appropriate; belonging to a person and to him only. Almost every writer has a peculiar<\/em> style. Most men have manners peculiar<\/em> to themselves.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0<\/strong>Singular (unusual, rare, odd); particular. The man has something peculiar<\/em> in his deportment.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0<\/strong>Particular; special.<\/p>\n My fate is Juno\u2019s most peculiar<\/em> care.\u00a0 Dryden<\/em>.<\/p>\n [Most<\/em> cannot, in strict propriety, be prefixed to peculiar<\/em>, but it is used to give emphasis to the word.]<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0<\/strong>Belonging to a nation, system or other thing, and not to others.<\/p>\n PECU’LIAR<\/strong> noun<\/em><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0<\/strong>Exclusive property; that which belongs to a person in exclusion of others. \u00a0Milton<\/em>.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0<\/strong>In the canon law<\/em>, a particular parish or church which has the probate of wills within itself, exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary or bishop\u2019s court. \u00a0Encyc.<\/em><\/p>\n Court of peculiars<\/em>, in England, is a branch of the court of arches.\u00a0 It has jurisdiction over all the parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only.\u00a0 Blackstone<\/em>.<\/p>\n All definitions are taken from the Webster\u2019s 1828 Dictionary from Archive.org Volume 1<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Volume 2<\/a> and can also be found on Webster\u2019s 1828 Dictionary<\/a> online<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBut ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar<\/em> people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:\u201d ~ 1 Peter 2:9<\/a> (KJV)<\/p>\nWord of the Week Lesson #24<\/strong><\/h5>\n
peculiar<\/strong><\/h1>\n
Short Definition<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Webster’s 1828 Full Definition<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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