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peculiarize, v.|pɪˈkjuːlɪəraɪz|
[f. peculiar a. + -ize.]
trans. To make peculiar.
†1. To appropriate exclusively to. Obs.
1624Heywood Gunaik. iii. 140 He onely peculiarised to himselfe a fift part of the people, and the rest were imployed in agriculture and tillage. 1653Sclater Fun. Serm. 25 Sept. (1654) 15 Χάρισµα,.. a word not used in any Heathen Author, but peculiarized to the inspired penmen of Holy Writ. 1704Nelson Fasts & Fest. xi. 112 There was to be no more Distinction betwixt the Children of Abraham and other People, and no one Land more peculiarized than another.
2. To give or impart peculiarity to.
1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 75 Touching that Title, which doth peculiarize Druina's Monarch from all other. 1796Coleridge Lett., to J. Thelwall (1895) 197 This, I think, peculiarises my style of writing. 1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 515 Those distinguishing marks which peculiarize the Latin original. 1852Stone Ballou's Spir. Manifest. i. 15. |