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Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.

A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

In an articular or an articulate manner.

Situated outside of a joint.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. Shak. [/Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Shak. Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne. Chaucer.…

The doctrine of particular election.

One who holds to particularism. -- Par*tic`u*lar*is"tic, a.

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

The act of particularizing. Coleridge.

To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury.

In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly.

A particular; a detail. [Obs.]

Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4. [Obs.] Hutton.

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.

Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; exiting in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.

learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.