Word Meanings - PARTICULARISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.

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• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• ELECTIONEERER
  One who electioneers.
• PARTICULARISM
  The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
• ELECTIONEER
  To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• DESCRIPTION
  1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions
• ELECTION
  Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5. (more info) 1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• DETAILER
  One who details.
• PARTICULARMENT
  A particular; a detail.
• PARTICULARIZATION
  The act of particularizing. Coleridge.
• PARTICULARIST
  One who holds to particularism. -- Par*tic`u*lar*is"tic, a.
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• MINUTENESS
  The quality of being minute.
• STATEMENT
  1. The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case. 2. That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital. "Admirable
• DOCTRINE
  1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
• PARTICULARIZE
  To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury.
• PARTICULAR
  Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. Some men are wise; Some men are not wise. Particular average. See under Average.
• PRELECTION
  A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• REINSTATEMENT
  The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• REELECTION
  Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.
• OVERSTATEMENT
  An exaggerated statement or account.
• UNDERSTATEMENT
  The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
• PREELECTION
  Election beforehand.
• DIMINUTE
  Small; diminished; diminutive. Jer. Taylor.