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peculiaries pl (plural only)

1. (dated, proscribed) Peculiarities.
   • 1887, Rev. E.F. Burr, “Infallible Scripture”, in Bibliotheca Sacra‎, volume 44, page 121:

     Was it within the present century, or the last, that the people found out that every sacred penman has his peculiaries of both thought and expression?

   • 1881, E.W. Allen (publisher), “Professor W.C. Williamson, F.R.S.”, in The Biograph and Review‎, volume 6, page 281:

     At the same time some peculiaries in the microscopic structure of the scales of some of the fossil fishes of the coal-measures led him to investigate the subject of scale and bone-structures amongst fishes generally.

   • 1929, Khushal Talaksi Shah, Federal Finance in India, page 190:

     India has, however, certain peculiaries of her own, which entail a relatively higher expenditure for tax-collection and administration.

   • 1947, Wisconsin Free Library Commission, Wisconsin. Division for Library Services, “The Ecology of Rural Interaction”, in Wisconsin Library Bulletin‎, volumes 43-45, page 40:

     Unfortunately, townships do not conform to the neighborhood and trade center boundaries, but the county and township population pyramids may be helpful in explaining certain peculiaries.