Peculiar

pē-kūl′yar, adj. one's own: belonging to no other: appropriate: particular: odd, uncommon, strange.— n. ( obs. ) private property: a parish or church exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary or bishop in whose diocese it is placed.— v.t. Pecul′iarise , to set apart.— n. Peculiar′ity , quality of being peculiar or singular: that which is found in one and in no other: that which marks a person off from others: individuality.— adv. Pecul′iarly .— n. Pecū′lium , private property, esp. that given by a father to a son, .— Peculiar people , the people of Israel: a sect of faith-healers, founded in London in 1838, who reject medical aid in cases of disease, and rely on anointing with oil by the elders, and on prayer, with patient nursing. [Fr.,—L. peculiar is — peculium , private property.]