Particularize

[pə'tɪkjʊləraɪz] or [pɚ'tɪkjələraɪz]

(v. t.) To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.

(v. i.) To mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial; as, to particularize in a narrative.

Typed by Amalia

v. a. Specify, mention in detail, set forth minutely.

v. n. Be particular, descend to particulars, mention particulars.

Inputed by Elizabeth

What need to particularize? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
If his prophetic soul had been urged to particularize, it seemed to him that fits would have been the definite expression alighted upon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
You see one forgets to particularize an old woman and her boy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
In real knowledge, there is a particularizing and a generalizing function working together. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Editor: Milton