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wherein he endeavours to fhow the antiquity of this ce¬ 
remony, in that it is mentioned in the Liturgies of 
St, Chryfoftom and Bafil. But there has been a confider- 
able difpute on this head, between the Reformed and the 
Catholic divines. Aubertin and Blor.del explain a paf- 
fage in the Theory of Germanus, patriarch of Conflan- 
tinople, where he mentions the ceremony of the parti¬ 
cles as in ufe in his time; Meffieurs dePort Royal contefl 
the explanation : but M. Simon, in his notes on Gabriel 
of Philadelphia, endeavours to fhow, that the paffage it- 
felf is an interpolation ; not being found in the ancient 
copies of Germanus : and confequently that the difpute 
is very ill grounded. 
PARTICOT'TY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic : feven miles north-eall of Tinevelly. 
PARTICULAR, aclj. [ particulier , Fr.] Relating to 
fingle perfons ; not general.—As well for particular appli¬ 
cation to fpecial occafions, as alfo in other manifold re- 
fpefts, infinite treafures of wifdom are abundantly to be 
found in the Holy Scripture. Hooker. —Individual; one 
diftinft from others.— Wherefoever one plant dravveth 
luch a particular juice out of the earth, as it qualifieth 
the earth, fo as that juice which remaineth is fit for 
the other plant; there the neighbourhood doth good. 
Bacon. —Artifls, who propofe only the imitation of 
fuch a particular perfon, without eleftion of ideas, 
have often been reproached for that omiffion. Drydcn. 
—Noting properties or things peculiar.—Of this prince 
there is little particular memory ; only that he was 
very fludious and learned. Bacon. —Attentive to things 
fmgle and diftinft.—I have been particular in examin¬ 
ing the reafon of children’s inheriting the property of 
their fathers, becaufe it will give us farther light in the 
inheritance of power. Locke. —Single; not general; one 
among many.—Rather performing his general command¬ 
ment, which had ever been, to embrace virtue, than any 
new particular, fprung out of paffion, and contrary to 
the former. Sidney. —Odd ; having fomething that emi¬ 
nently diftinguifhes him from others. This is commonly 
ufed in a fenfe of contempt. 
PARTICULAR, f. A fingle inftance ; a fingle point. 
—Having the idea of an elephant or an angle in my mind, 
the firft and natural inquiry is, whether fuch a thing 
does exifl ? and this knowledge is only of particulars. 
Locke. —The mailer could hardly fit on his horfe for 
laughing, all the while he was giving me the particulars 
of this ftory. Addifon. —Vefpafian he refembled in many 
particulars. Swift. — Individual ; private perfon.—It is the 
greateft interell of particulars, to advance the good of 
the community. L'Ejirange. —Private interell.—Our wif¬ 
dom mud be fuch, as doth not propofe to itfelf our own 
particular, the partial and immoderate delire whereof 
poifoneth wherefoever it taketh place ; but the fcope and 
mark which we are to aim at, is the publick and common 
good. Hooker. —They apply their minds even with hearty 
affection and zeal, at the lead, unto thofe branches of 
publick prayer wherein their own particular is moved. 
Hooker. —We are to give thanks for temporal bleffings, 
whether fuch as concern the publick, as the profperity 
of the church or nation, and all remarkable deliverances 
afforded to either ; or elfe fuch as concern our particular. 
Whole Duty of Man. 
His general lov’d him 
In a mod dear particular. Sltakejpeare. 
Private character ; fingle felf; date of an individual: 
For his particular, I’ll receive him gladly ; 
But not one follower. ShakeJ’peare's K. Lear. 
A minute detail of things fingly enumerated.—The reader 
has a particular of the books, wherein this law was writ¬ 
ten. A y life's Par ergon. 
In particular. Peculiarly; diftinftly.—Invention is 
called a mufe, authors aferibe to each of them, in parti¬ 
cular, the fciences which they have invented. Dryden. 
PAR 
PARTIC'ULARIST,/. One who holds the doftrine 
of particular redemption. AJh. 
PARTICULARITY, /. [from particular.\ Diftinft 
notice or enumeration.—So did the boldnefs of their af¬ 
firmation accompany the greatnefs of what they did af¬ 
firm, even defeending to particularities, what kingdoms 
he diould overcome. Sidney. —Singlenefs ; individuality; 
fingle aft ; fingle cafe.—Knowledge imprinted in the 
minds of all men, whereby both general principles for 
directing of human aftions are comprehended, and con- 
clufions derived from them, upon which conclufions 
groweth, in particularity, the choice of good and evil. 
Hooker. —Petty account; private incident.—To fee the 
titles that were moll agreeable to fuch an emperor, the 
flatteries that he lay molt open to, with the like particu¬ 
larities only to be met with on medals, are certainly not 
a little pleafing. Addifon. —Something belonging to fingle 
perfons: 
Let the general trumpet blow his blafi, 
Particularities and petty founds 
To ceafe. Shakefpeare's Hen. VI. 
Something peculiar.—I faw an old heathen altar, with 
this particularity, that it was hollowed like a difh at one 
end, but not the end on which the facrifice was laid. Ad¬ 
difon on Italy. —He applied himfelf to the coquette’s heart; 
there occurred many particularities in this diffeftion. 
Addifon. 
To PARTICULARIZE, v.a. To mention diftinftly; 
to detail; to fliow minutely.—He not only boalls of his 
parentage as an Ifraelite, but particularizes his defeent 
from Benjamin. Atterbury. 
To PARTICULARIZE, v. n. To be particular; to be 
attentive to things fingle and difhinft.—The parfon quef- 
tions what order is kept in the houfe, as about prayers 
morning and evening on their knees, reading of Scrip¬ 
ture, catechifing, finging of pfalms at their work and 
on holydays; who can read, who not: and fometimes 
he hears the children read himfelf, and bleffeth, encou¬ 
raging alfo the fervants to learn to read, and offering to 
have them taught on holydays by his fervants. If the 
parfon were afliamed of particularifing in thefe things, 
he were not fit to be a parfon. Herbert's Country Parfon. 
PARTICULARLY, adv. Diftinftly ; fingly; not iini- 
verfally.—Providence, that univerfally calls its eye over 
all the creation, is yet pleafed more particularly to fallen 
it upon fome. South's Serm. —In an extraordinary degree. 
—This exaft propriety of Virgil, I particularly regarded 
as a great part of his charafter. Dryden. —With the Flower 
and the Leaf I was fo particularly pleafed, both for the in¬ 
vention and the moral, that I commend it to the reader. 
Dryden. 
PARTICULARNESS, /. Particularity. Scott. 
To PARTICULATE, v. n. [from particular.’] To 
make mention fingly. Obfolete. —I may not particulate of 
Alexander Hales, the irrefragable doftor. Camden's Re¬ 
mains. 
PARTI'DO, a fmall ifland in the fouth-wefl part of 
the bay of Campeachy. 
PARTI'DO, a river of Mexico, which runs into the 
Pacific Ocean in lat. u. 20. S. 
PAR'TILE, adj. See Astrology, vol. ii. p. 310. 
PAR'TING, J'. [from part.] Divifion.—The king of 
Babylon flood, at the parting of the way, at the head of 
the two ways. Ezek. xxi. 21.—Separation; ceremony of 
taking leave.— [In chemillry.] An operation by which 
metals are feparated from their ores, or from each other. 
See the article Chemistry, vol.iv. p. 309-16. and Mine¬ 
ralogy, vol. xv. p. 4.81.— [In naval language.] State 
• of being driven from the anchors, when the fhip has 
broke her cable. 
PAR'TISAN, f. [pertuifane, Fr. Johnfori. —Robert 
Stephens and Menage derive pertuifane from the Lat. per- 
tundo, to ftrike through. Serenius, from the old Goth. 
bard, an axe; and that from beria, to llrike; thence the 
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