PERSONALS
Noun
personals
plural of personal
Anagrams
• apronless, psoralens, responsal
Source: Wiktionary
PERSONAL
Per"son*al, a. Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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.
Per"son*al, n. (Law)
Definition: A movable; a chattel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition