单词 | personal to |
释义 | > as lemmaspersonal to 6. personal to. extracted from personaladj.n.adv. a. Directed towards or referring to (a particular individual or group of people). Now rare.Cf. relative to (relative adj. 4a). ΚΠ 1658 W. Prynne Demophilos 16 The Earl of Arundell was restrained for a misdemeanour which was personal to your Majesty. 1689 Proc. & Tryal Archbishop of Canterbury & Right Rev. Fathers 132 Whoever he be that endeavours to bring a dislike of the King in the People, that is moving Sedition against the Prince, but that is personal to the Prince himself, and does not go to his Successors. 1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor II. iii. 36 My vanity would willingly have given another interpretation to his lordship's civility, and have considered it as personal to myself. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xx. 306 He [sc. the Prince] had a different and good-natured motive, personal to our hero, for prolonging the conference. View more context for this quotation 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn I. xxxvi. 311 He made one remark personal to Mr Turnbull. 1940 C. Morgan Voyage II. iv. 194 She liked the foolish, friendly advertisements.., and read them again and again as though they were personal to her. b. Belonging exclusively or specially to; having particular significance, importance, or meaning for.Cf. peculiar to at peculiar adj. 2c. ΚΠ 1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres IV. iii. §1 ii. 198 What is very singular in this language is..that every individual has it as particular and personal to himself, as his existence. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. i. iv. §12. 58 The jurisdiction annexed to the principality is not heritable, but personal to the King's eldest son. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. ii. 67 The authority..was personal to Augustine, and not intended to descend from him to his successors. a1873 S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) I. 376 This is personal to himself. 1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 261/1 The prerogatives here promised are manifestly personal to Peter. 1991 Greece & Rome 38 120 The last two papers..are..not as immediately personal to Dover as the concluding..list of the dedicatee's own publications. < as lemmas |
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