'Particular Baptist' definitions:

Definition of 'Particular Baptist'

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noun
Group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the French theologian John Calvin who believed in strict predetermination [syn: Calvinistic Baptist, Particular Baptist]

Definition of 'Particular Baptist'

From: GCIDE
  • Particular \Par*tic"u*lar\, a. [OE. particuler, F. particulier, L. particularis. See Particle.]
  • 1. Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • [Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular. "Thine own particular wrongs." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Law) (a) Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder. (b) Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise. [1913 Webster]
  • Particular average. See under Average.
  • Particular Baptist, one of a branch of the Baptist denomination the members of which hold the doctrine of a particular or individual election and reprobation.
  • Particular lien (Law), a lien, or a right to retain a thing, for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, that particular thing.
  • Particular redemption, the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See Calvinism. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Minute; individual; respective; appropriate; peculiar; especial; exact; specific; precise; critical; circumstantial. See Minute. [1913 Webster]