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specialties |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Specialty \Spe"cial*ty\, n.; pl {Specialties}. [F. sp['e]cialit['e]. Cf {Speciality}.] 1. Particularity. Specialty of rule hath been neglected. --Shak. 2. A particular or peculiar case. [Obs.] 3. (Law) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified. --Chitty. --Bouvier. --Wharton (Law Dict.). Let specialties be therefore drawn between us --Shak. 4. That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality. Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty, their pet subject. --C. Kingsley.
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