Definition of Peculiars

1. peculiar [n] - See also: peculiar

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peculiars

peculator
peculators
peculia
peculiar
peculiar(a)
peculiar institution
peculiar velocity
peculiarities
peculiarity
peculiarize
peculiarized
peculiarizes
peculiarizing
peculiarly
peculiarness
peculiars (current term)
peculium
peculs
pecunial
pecuniarily
pecuniary
pecuniary resource
pecunious
ped
ped-
ped xing
pedage
pedages
pedagog
pedagogic

Literary usage of Peculiars

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by United States Congress Senate, United States, Congress (1905)
"The only articles on "peculiars" which I have discovered are in the various ... I have also made use of the reference to individual " peculiars " in several ..."

2. A Practical Arrangement of Ecclesiastical Law by Francis James Newman Rogers (1840)
"peculiars seem to be generally of three sorts : 1. royal peculiars ; 2. peculiars of archbishops and bishops; 3. peculiars depending ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts by Robert Swan (1830)
"What peculiars are subject to the jurisdiction of the Prerogative Court, by reason of a person having at the time of his death goods, or good debts, ..."

4. The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the ...by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1835)
"Deans of peculiars, who have sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of souls, as the Dean of Battel, in Sussex ; and sometimes jurisdiction only, ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"ECCLESIASTICAL " peculiars." A PECULIAR is, or rather was, a place ecclesiastically exempt from the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese. ..."

6. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1864)
"Their The lawful power of an Archbishop of Canter- peculiars could not but ... Hence the origin of the Archiepiscopal peculiars, as they existed till the ..."

7. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1864)
"Their The lawful power of an Archbishop of Canter- peculiars could not but ... Hence the origin of the Archiepiscopal peculiars, as they existed till the ..."

8. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"... (S) The Court of peculiars.6 This Court was held by the Dean of the Arches at Bow church for the thirteen London parishes, which were exempt from the ..."

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