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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Personal \Per"son*al\, a. [L. personalis: cf F. personnel.] 1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things Every man so termed by way of personal difference. --Hooker. 2. 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. --Locke. 3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as personal charms. --Addison. 4. Done in person; without the intervention of another. ``Personal communication.'' --Fabyan. The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White. 5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as personal reflections or remarks. 6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as a personal pronoun. {Personal action} (Law), 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}. (Astron.) See under {Equation}. {Personal estate} or {property} (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature. {Personal identity} (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness. {Personal pronoun} (Gram.), one of the pronouns {I}, {thou}, {he}, {she}, {it}, and their plurals. {Personal representatives} (Law), 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} (Gram.), a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Property \Prop"er*ty\, n.; pl {Properties}. [OE. proprete OF propret['e] property, F. propret['e] neatness, cleanliness, propri['e]t['e] property, fr L. proprietas See {Proper}, a., and cf {Propriety}.] 1. That which is proper to anything a peculiar quality of a thing that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it an attribute; as sweetness is a property of sugar. Property is correctly a synonym for peculiar quality; but it is frequently used as coextensive with quality in general. --Sir W. Hamilton. Note: In physical science, the properties of matter are distinguished to the three following classes: 1. Physical properties, or those which result from the relations of bodies to the physical agents, light, heat, electricity, gravitation, cohesion, adhesion, etc., and which are exhibited without a change in the composition or kind of matter acted on They are color, luster, opacity, transparency, hardness, sonorousness, density, crystalline form solubility, capability of osmotic diffusion, vaporization, boiling, fusion, etc 2. Chemical properties, or those which are conditioned by affinity and composition; thus combustion, explosion, and certain solutions are reactions occasioned by chemical properties. Chemical properties are identical when there is identity of composition and structure, and change according as the composition changes. 3. Organoleptic properties, or those forming a class which can not be included in either of the other two divisions. They manifest themselves in the contact of substances with the organs of taste, touch, and smell, or otherwise affect the living organism, as in the manner of medicines and poisons. 2. An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as the poem has the properties which constitute excellence. 3. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing ownership; title. Here I disclaim all my paternal care Propinquity and property of blood. --Shak. Shall man assume a property in man? --Wordsworth. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Property \Prop"er*ty\, v. t. 1. To invest which properties, or qualities. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To make a property of to appropriate. [Obs.] They have here propertied me --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whose perfection far excelled Hers in all real dignity. --Milton. 5. Relating to things not to persons. [Obs.] Many are perfect in men's humors that are not greatly capable of the real part of business. --Bacon. 4. (Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary. 5. (Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as real property, in distinction from personal or movable property. {Chattels real} (Law), such chattels as are annexed to or savor of the realty, as terms for years of land. See {Chattel}. {Real action} (Law), an action for the recovery of real property. {Real assets} (Law), lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor. {Real composition} (Eccl. Law), an agreement made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof. --Blackstone. {Real estate} or {property}, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land. --Kent. --Burrill. {Real presence} (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation. {Real servitude}, called also {Predial servitude} (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. --Erskine. --Bouvier. Syn: Actual; true; genuine; authentic. Usage: {Real}, {Actual}. Real represents a thing to be a substantive existence; as a real, not imaginary, occurrence. Actual refers to it as acted or performed; and hence when we wish to prove a thing real, we often say ``It actually exists,'' ``It has actually been done.'' Thus its really is shown by its actually. Actual, from this reference to being acted, has recently received a new signification, namely, present; as the actual posture of affairs; since what is now in action or going on has of course, a present existence. An actual fact a real sentiment. For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault. --Dryden. Our simple ideas are all real; all agree to the reality of things --Locke. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: property n 1: any tangible possession that is owned by someone "that hat is my property" [syn: {belongings}, {holding}, {material possession}] 2: a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" 3: any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?" [syn: {place}] 4: a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" [syn: {attribute}, {dimension}] 5: any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props" [syn: {prop}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: PROPERTY, n. Any material thing having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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