PECULIAR

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peculiar I. adjectiv

1. care aparţine exclusiv, personal, propriu;

my own peculiar property averea mea personală.

2. specific, caracteristic.

3. particular, special, deosebit;

a point of peculiar interest un moment ce prezintă un interes deosebit.

4. curios, ciudat, excentric;

he has peculiar ways e un om ciudat / cu apucături ciudate.

peculiar II. substantiv

1. avere personală.

2. privilegiu special.

3. Peculiar membru al unei secte religioase (v. Peculiar People).

4. (bis.) biserică sau parohie sub altă jurisdicţie decât cea a diocezei în care se află.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Mr. Jorkins is not a man to respond to a proposition of this peculiar nature.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

In what way is he peculiar?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Noticed anything peculiar about the room?” asked Holmes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But whether he were entirely free from peculiar attachment—whether there were no actual preference—remained a little longer doubtful.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

All at once the wolves began to howl as though the moonlight had had some peculiar effect on them.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Suddenly he gave an exclamation of satisfaction and pointed to a single tree, which projected at a peculiar angle over the side of the stream.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For Catherine, however, the peculiar object of the general's curiosity, and his own speculations, he had yet something more in reserve, and the ten or fifteen thousand pounds which her father could give her would be a pretty addition to Mr. Allen's estate.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

As for the ball, so near at hand, she had too many agitations and fears to have half the enjoyment in anticipation which she ought to have had, or must have been supposed to have by the many young ladies looking forward to the same event in situations more at ease, but under circumstances of less novelty, less interest, less peculiar gratification, than would be attributed to her.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Having concluded this to my satisfaction and learning that only one of my enemies was now left in London, I was about to return when my movements were hastened by the news of this very remarkable Park Lane Mystery, which not only appealed to me by its own merits, but which seemed to offer some most peculiar personal opportunities.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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