My fate is Juno's most peculiar care. Peculiar is from the Roman peculium , which was a thing emphatically and distinctively one's own, and hence was dear. Nothing of this kind belongs to special and especial . Beauty, which, either walking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. But to the earth some special good doth give.
Revenge is . . .
A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary. Dean of peculiars . See under Dean , 1. The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner. Exclusive possession or right.