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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
particularise .
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Examples
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There were wines; but the writer only particularises them as white and red.
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This is a long passage, and particularises a number of those bestial forms.
Green Tea 2003
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Catullus says "the floweret," -- _flosculus_: Ariosto particularises the rose, -- the _bel giardin_, "the beautiful garden," stands for _septis in hortis_, the enclosed.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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This in so far as it is superindividual is an aspect of suchness, but when it affirms and particularises itself it becomes _citta_, that is the human mind, or to be more accurate the substratum of the human mind from which is developed _manas_, or the principle of will, self-consciousness and self-affirmation.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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From the entries referring to these works I will quote the following, as it particularises the most striking feature in the room, namely, the large ornamental brackets which appear to support the gallery:
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Among others, he particularises a sketch of the Battle of
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Burns particularises very fully the formulæ of Hallowe'en, as practised in
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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In speaking of “embattled walls, raised on the mountain precipice,” he particularises
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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This is a long passage, and particularises a number of those bestial forms.
Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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Of the former he particularises two, the position of which would nearly correspond with the Bay of Trincomalie and the harbour of Colombo.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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