Word Finder - peculiar

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

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(canon law) an ecclesiastical district, parish, chapel or church outside the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which it is situated.

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Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.

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It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.

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• odd
• strange
• uncommon
• unusual

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

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Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.

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• specific

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One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.

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Particular; individual; special; appropriate.

The early history, therefore, of New South Wales is peculiar to itself.

Their peculiar business is expressed by the term" ruling elders."20 II.

A peculiar kind of sugar called quercite exists in all acorns.

The town is of peculiar structure and aspect,.

The plan of construction shows three parallel walls enclosing two corridors covered with the peculiar pointed arches or vaults characteristic of Palenque.

For widows or deep mourning the peculiar cut of the local costume is preserved, but carried out entirely in black.

Thus the restoration and interpretation of the poems is one of peculiar delicacy and difficulty.

The method of this irrigation is peculiar.

The majority of the birds are of endemic species peculiar to different islets, while more than half belong to peculiar genera.

The costume of the Mirdite and Mat tribes is peculiar.

Such an expedition was admirably calculated to call forth Forster's peculiar powers.

Other peculiar families are much more confined.

In Denisov's party he held a peculiar and exceptional position.

It is little wonder that, in these circumstances, the choice of a successor to Pellegrini, whose term of office expired in 1892, should have been felt to possess peculiar importance.

We have already spoken of Kant's peculiar philosophical positions.

Here only few peculiar features may be mentioned.

The genealogy of Jesus here given is peculiar to this Gospel.

The Hawaiian Islands have a peculiar flora.

I am frequently asked how I overcome the peculiar conditions under which I work in college.

Putting aside the exotic vegetation of the north and east coast-line, the Australian bush gains its peculiar character from the prevalence of the so-called gum-trees (Eucalyptus) and the acacias, of which last there are 300 species, but the eucalypts above all are everywhere.

Butler himself occupies a peculiar position in more respects than one.

Fish are very numerous and many species are peculiar to the Andaman seas.

The peculiar prostomium of Tomopteris is described below.

In 1597 Libavius described a "peculiar kind of tin" which was prepared in India, and of which a friend had given him a quantity.

The past of Rome had always a peculiar fascination for Roman writers.

This remote and mountainous country has a peculiar civilization.

The peculiar circumstances, both ecclesiastical and temporal, of the Nestorians have attracted much attention in western Christendom, and various missionary enterprises amongst them have resulted.

Apart from such a peculiar development as the rise, formation and fall of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay, there was growth and change.

At Tirqa they had month names of a peculiar type.

It has floras of the plains, the hills and the mountains; an alpine flora, and an arctic flora; a flora of marshes, and a flora of steppes; floras peculiar to the clay, the chalk, the sandstone and the slate formations.

Other peculiar animals are twenty-three species of the Centetidae, a family of the Insectivora almost confined to Madagascar; while of the Carnivora there are several small creatures belonging to the civets (Viverridae).

The avi-fauna is much richer than the mammalian, and, although wanting the 'largest birds as well as the most brilliantly coloured, comprises two hundred and sixty species, half of which are endemic. Many of the birds are remarkable not so much for their shape or colouring as for their distant relationships; many belong to peculiar genera, and some are so isolated that new families have had to be formed for their reception.

There are several peculiar tortoises, but the gigantic species are now found alive only on the little island of Aldabra, to the north.

Of the 3178 species of plants whose localities have been determined, 35% are peculiar to the eastern region, 27.5% to the central, and 22% to the western.

Royalty and chieftainship in Madagascar had many peculiar customs. It had a semi-sacred character; the chief was, in heathen tribes, while living, the high priest for his people, and after death, was worshipped as a god; in its modern development among the Hova sovereigns it gathered round it much state and ceremony.

The pattern of the wig-lappets has been quoted to prove that it dates from the XIIth Dynasty, but it is said that the peculiar disposition of the uraeus on its forehead agrees with that in the earliest sculptures.

In the west division the population is wholly Teutonic, but in the east there is a strong Wendish or Slavonic element, still to be traced in the peculiar manners and costume of the country-people, though these are gradually disappearing.

Vacancies in the body of pontifices were originally filled by co-optation; but from the second Punic War onwards the pontifex maximus was chosen by a peculiar form of popular election, and in the last age of the republic this held good for all the members.

A finch (Nesospiza acunhae), a thrush (Nesocichla eremita), and a water-hen (Gallinula nesiotis) are the only land birds - the first two being peculiar to the islands.

On the other hand, the most ordinary savage does not misunderstand so universal a custom as the imposition of names peculiar to animals or derived from atmospheric phenomena.

In a developed treatise on the subject of mythology it would be necessary to criticize, with a minuteness which is impossible here, our evidence for the very peculiar mental condition of the lower races.

So far the peculiar mark of the wilder American tribe legends is the bestial character of the divine beings, which is also illustrated in Australia and Africa, while the bestial clothing, feathers or fur, drops but slowly off Indra, Zeus and the Egyptian Ammon, and the Scandinavian Odin.

Baboons and mandrills, with few exceptions, are peculiar to Africa.

As far as is known they speak no language peculiar to themselves but adopt that of the nearest agricultural tribe.

Another peculiar tribe, also of short stature, are the Vaalpens of the steppe region of the north Transvaal.

Here the ethnological conditions are peculiar.

Peripatetic studies became the source of heresies; and conversely, the heretical sects prosecuted the study of Aristotle with peculiar zeal.

This is preserved for us in some 36 short inscriptions, dating from the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C., and is written in a peculiar alphabet derived from the Etruscan, and written from right to left, but showing some traces of the influence of the Latin alphabet.

Grazing and fodder are not wanting, and besides the reeds peculiar to Seistan there are two grasses which merit notice - that called bannu, with which the bed of the Hamun abounds on the south and the taller and less salt kirta on the higher ground.

On all sides the table-land as a whole is remarkably isolated, and hence the passes on its boundary and the river valleys that lead down from it to the surrounding plains are geographical features of peculiar importance.