peculiar peoplen.

Brit.

/pᵻˌkjuːlɪə ˈpiːpl/, U.S.

/pəˌkjuljər ˈpip(ə)l/

Forms: see peculiar adj. and n. and people n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: peculiar adj., people n.

Etymology: < peculiar adj. + people n. Compare post-classical Latin populus peculiaris (Vulgate, translating Hebrew ʿam sĕgullāh < ʿam people + sĕgullāh possession, property: compare quot. 1535 at sense b); also post-classical Latin peculium as used to denote the people of God (see peculium n.).In Deuteronomy 14:2 (see quot. 1535 at sense b) the Old English Hexateuch has to syndrigum folce , the Wycliffite versions (late 14th cent.) have a special puple , Tyndale (1530) has a seuerall people . Compare also later peculiar nation n., peculiar race n. at peculiar adj. and n. Compounds 2.

With plural and singular agreement. Originally (chiefly in or after biblical use): a people chosen by God to be his own. In later use also: a group of people marked out by their distinctive social and religious practices.

a. In Christian use, applied to those chosen by God for salvation (the elect); also to the members of the Christian Church, or of a particular Christian sect or denomination, regarded as such (see also sense c). Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun] > person > collective

sheepc825

chosenc1200

heritagea1340

markedc1350

Israel1382

peculiar peoplea1513

forechosen1577

peculiar1610

election1611

predestinated1626

peculiar racea1657

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clix Of his great mercy he hath visyted vs I truste his peculier people.

1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Titus ii. 14 To pourge vs a peculiar people [Gk. λαὸν περιούσιον] vnto him silfe.

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses 47 Euen from the beginning of the world, the chosen and peculiar people of God haue contemned proude Apparel.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Peter ii. 9 Yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people .

1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 29 They arrogate to be the peculiar people of God.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi Introd. sig. C2/1 The People, whom the Son of God hath Redeemed and Purified unto himself, as a Peculiar People, and whom the Spirit of God, by Supernatural Operations upon their Minds, does cause to live like Strangers in this World.

1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. 19 Pulteney..was the schismatic; they [sc. the Whigs] were the true Catholics, the peculiar people, the despositaries of the orthodox faith of Hampden and Russell.

1912 Amer. Hist. Rev. 17 620 The Friends accepted for themselves more and more the rôle of a ‘peculiar people’ bearing testimony to their distinctive principles.

1963 J. A. Hostetler Amish Society iii. 49 This emphasis upon literalness and separateness is compatible with the Amish view of themselves as a ‘chosen people’ or ‘peculiar people’.

2002 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 20 Aug. b1 There might be people who mock us, but as LDS [= Latter-Day Saints] people we thrive on being a peculiar people.

b. Applied to the Jewish people.

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society > faith > sect > Judaism > [noun] > person > collective

ten tribes971

Abraham's seedOE

Jewry?c1225

circumcision1382

peculiar people1535

peculiar nation1651

Yahudi1858

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xiv. 2 The Lord hath chosen the to be his awne peculier people [L. populum peculiarem] from amonge all the nacions.

a1586 Balade Consolatoir in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS. (1919) I. clxx. 420 God his peculiar propir pepill prewit.

1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 29 The very Patriarks, and Princes of Gods peculiar people were palpably exorbitant in this kinde.

1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1073 When Gods peculiar People after the Conquest of their Enemies, were first establisht in peace and prosperity.

1719 Philos. Trans. 1717–19 (Royal Soc.) 30 966 The now barren and rocky Plains of the Countries of Syria, India, and Arabia, are owing to Natural Causes, as well as immediate Curse of God for the Disobedience of its ancient Possessors his peculiar People.

1850 Times 17 July 6/6 No doubt those laws suited that peculiar people and the times they lived in, or a wise and just God would not have prescribed them.

1909 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 20 112 The very liberation which has emancipated the Jew threatens to break down the barriers that have held the race together as a peculiar people.

1961 M. S. Enslin Prophet from Nazareth i. 34 The confidence of the peculiar destiny of the peculiar people, whom their God had chosen and with whom he had made a covenant.

c. Usually in form Peculiar People. (The members of) an evangelical Christian denomination founded in Essex in 1838 and rejecting medicine in favour of faith healing. Now historical.The group had a chapel in Plumstead, south London, until the 1930s, from which they were sometimes called the Plumstead Peculiars (cf. peculiar n. 5b). In 1956 they took the name of the Union of Evangelical Churches.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > peculiar people > [noun]

peculiar people1852

1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 16 Oct. 101/2 The publics used by the peculiar people are marked with distinctive characteristics... It is a peculiarity of the ‘persuasion’ to take its refreshment almost invariably standing.

1875 Punch 19 June 267/1 Of course the Peculiar People have the right to believe in miracle and also the right to disbelieve in medicine.

1892 Spectator 19 Mar. 391 Drugs may be dispensed with altogether, as by the Peculiar People or the Faith Healers.

1903 Times 8 June 9/1 William and Sarah Moon, members of the sect known as the ‘Peculiar People’, were..charged with the neglect of their daughter by refusing medical aid when she was suffering from diphtheria.

1979 M. Sorrell Peculiar People ii. 33 The rigid ruling on divine healing and the rejection of doctors among the Peculiar People was maintained.

2001 Maclean's 18 June 28/1 Cornwell was..adopted by a member of a strict fundamentalist church known as the Peculiar People.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	peculiar people
释义	peculiar peoplen. Brit. /pᵻˌkjuːlɪə ˈpiːpl/, U.S. /pəˌkjuljər ˈpip(ə)l/ Forms: see peculiar adj. and n. and people n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: peculiar adj., people n. Etymology: < peculiar adj. + people n. Compare post-classical Latin populus peculiaris (Vulgate, translating Hebrew ʿam sĕgullāh < ʿam people + sĕgullāh possession, property: compare quot. 1535 at sense b); also post-classical Latin peculium as used to denote the people of God (see peculium n.).In Deuteronomy 14:2 (see quot. 1535 at sense b) the Old English Hexateuch has to syndrigum folce , the Wycliffite versions (late 14th cent.) have a special puple , Tyndale (1530) has a seuerall people . Compare also later peculiar nation n., peculiar race n. at peculiar adj. and n. Compounds 2. With plural and singular agreement. Originally (chiefly in or after biblical use): a people chosen by God to be his own. In later use also: a group of people marked out by their distinctive social and religious practices. a. In Christian use, applied to those chosen by God for salvation (the elect); also to the members of the Christian Church, or of a particular Christian sect or denomination, regarded as such (see also sense c). Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun] > person > collective sheepc825 chosenc1200 heritagea1340 markedc1350 Israel1382 peculiar peoplea1513 forechosen1577 peculiar1610 election1611 predestinated1626 peculiar racea1657 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clix Of his great mercy he hath visyted vs I truste his peculier people. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Titus ii. 14 To pourge vs a peculiar people [Gk. λαὸν περιούσιον] vnto him silfe. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses 47 Euen from the beginning of the world, the chosen and peculiar people of God haue contemned proude Apparel. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Peter ii. 9 Yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people . View more context for this quotation 1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 29 They arrogate to be the peculiar people of God. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi Introd. sig. C2/1 The People, whom the Son of God hath Redeemed and Purified unto himself, as a Peculiar People, and whom the Spirit of God, by Supernatural Operations upon their Minds, does cause to live like Strangers in this World. 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. 19 Pulteney..was the schismatic; they [sc. the Whigs] were the true Catholics, the peculiar people, the despositaries of the orthodox faith of Hampden and Russell. 1912 Amer. Hist. Rev. 17 620 The Friends accepted for themselves more and more the rôle of a ‘peculiar people’ bearing testimony to their distinctive principles. 1963 J. A. Hostetler Amish Society iii. 49 This emphasis upon literalness and separateness is compatible with the Amish view of themselves as a ‘chosen people’ or ‘peculiar people’. 2002 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 20 Aug. b1 There might be people who mock us, but as LDS [= Latter-Day Saints] people we thrive on being a peculiar people. b. Applied to the Jewish people. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Judaism > [noun] > person > collective ten tribes971 Abraham's seedOE Jewry?c1225 circumcision1382 peculiar people1535 peculiar nation1651 Yahudi1858 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xiv. 2 The Lord hath chosen the to be his awne peculier people [L. populum peculiarem] from amonge all the nacions. a1586 Balade Consolatoir in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS. (1919) I. clxx. 420 God his peculiar propir pepill prewit. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 29 The very Patriarks, and Princes of Gods peculiar people were palpably exorbitant in this kinde. 1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1073 When Gods peculiar People after the Conquest of their Enemies, were first establisht in peace and prosperity. 1719 Philos. Trans. 1717–19 (Royal Soc.) 30 966 The now barren and rocky Plains of the Countries of Syria, India, and Arabia, are owing to Natural Causes, as well as immediate Curse of God for the Disobedience of its ancient Possessors his peculiar People. 1850 Times 17 July 6/6 No doubt those laws suited that peculiar people and the times they lived in, or a wise and just God would not have prescribed them. 1909 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 20 112 The very liberation which has emancipated the Jew threatens to break down the barriers that have held the race together as a peculiar people. 1961 M. S. Enslin Prophet from Nazareth i. 34 The confidence of the peculiar destiny of the peculiar people, whom their God had chosen and with whom he had made a covenant. c. Usually in form Peculiar People. (The members of) an evangelical Christian denomination founded in Essex in 1838 and rejecting medicine in favour of faith healing. Now historical.The group had a chapel in Plumstead, south London, until the 1930s, from which they were sometimes called the Plumstead Peculiars (cf. peculiar n. 5b). In 1956 they took the name of the Union of Evangelical Churches. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > peculiar people > [noun] peculiar people1852 1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 16 Oct. 101/2 The publics used by the peculiar people are marked with distinctive characteristics... It is a peculiarity of the ‘persuasion’ to take its refreshment almost invariably standing. 1875 Punch 19 June 267/1 Of course the Peculiar People have the right to believe in miracle and also the right to disbelieve in medicine. 1892 Spectator 19 Mar. 391 Drugs may be dispensed with altogether, as by the Peculiar People or the Faith Healers. 1903 Times 8 June 9/1 William and Sarah Moon, members of the sect known as the ‘Peculiar People’, were..charged with the neglect of their daughter by refusing medical aid when she was suffering from diphtheria. 1979 M. Sorrell Peculiar People ii. 33 The rigid ruling on divine healing and the rejection of doctors among the Peculiar People was maintained. 2001 Maclean's 18 June 28/1 Cornwell was..adopted by a member of a strict fundamentalist church known as the Peculiar People. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1513
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