adjective. Not ordinary or usual; odd or strange: synonym: strange.

adjective. Belonging distinctively or primarily to one person, group, or kind; special or unique.

noun. A privilege or property that is exclusively one's own.

noun. A church or parish under the jurisdiction of a diocese different from that in which it lies.

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.

noun. Exclusive property; that which belongs to one to the exclusion of others.

noun. A person or thing that is peculiar: as, the Plumstead Peculiars.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. A mistress.

noun. In Oxford, a nickname for an Evangelical.

adjective. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.

adjective. Particular; individual; special; appropriate.

adjective. Unusual; singular; rare; strange.

noun. That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.

noun. A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.

noun. a branch of the Court of Arches having cognizance of the affairs of peculiars.

noun. See under Dean, 1.

adjective. Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.

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

adjective. unique or specific to a person or thing or category

adjective. characteristic of one only; distinctive or special

adjective. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

adjective. markedly different from the usual

"House of Commons, and that where he found me before he might find me again; I having had no other object in view than that of expressing, by some peculiar act, the keen sense which I entertained of _peculiar_ injustice, and of endeavouring to bring such additional proofs of that injustice before the House as were not in my possession when I was heard in my defence. ""

usual  

court of peculiars  odd  peculiar institution  peculiar people  special  

characteristic  specific  strange  unusual  

peculiarity  peculiarness  

curious  queer  spiritual  unusual  

aberrant  abnormal  absurd  anomalous  another