Personal /(pẽr"sŭn*al)/
Per·son·al
Personal
a.
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Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
Every man so termed by way of personal difference.
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Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain.
- Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.
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Done in person; without the intervention of another.
The immediate and personal speaking of God.
- Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
- Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. (Gram.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Personal action
- a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action.
- Personal equation
- See under Equation.
- Personal estate
- movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or real property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature.
- Personal identity
- the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness.
- Personal pronoun
- one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals.
- Personal representatives
- the executors or administrators of a person deceased.
- Personal rights
- rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property.
- Personal tithes
- See under Tithe.
- Personal verb
- a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons.
Personal
n.
- A movable; a chattel. (Law)