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personall

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Personall 

 

1. a. Of, relating to, concerning, or affecting a person as a private individual (rather than as a member of a group or the public, or in a public or professional capacity); individual, private; one's own.

Occas. used in reference to an animal: see quot. 1796.

 

a1387 J. TREVISA tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) III. 115 Seruius Tullius..ordeyned first personal tribute [L. censum] to e Romayns. 1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 277/1 Ye personele querele and debate bitwix my Lord of Gloucester and ye Duc of Burgiogne. a1513 J. IRLAND Meroure of Wyssdome f. 290, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue s.v. Personal(l, The personal gudnes..of the medycinare..nouthire causis na lattis the heill of the seik persoune. 1565 J. CALFHILL Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 135, Examples be daungerous to be followed..bycause they be sometime but personall. a1616 SHAKESPEARE Julius Caesar (1623) II. i. 11, I know no personall cause, to spurne at him, But for the generall. 1683 Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania I. 236 Know no reason why they might not give their personal bills to such as would take them as money to pass. 1735 VISCT. BOLINGBROKE Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 192 The Saxons had a Nobility too, arising from personal Valour, or Wisdom. 1782 LD. AUCKLAND Let. 22 Aug. (1861) I. 29 Lord North, too, could on very easy terms answer for thirty or forty, quite as personal friends and followers. 1818 W. CRUISE Digest Laws Eng. Real Property (ed. 2) III. 182 Although dignities are now become little more than personal honours; yet they are still classed under the head of real property. 1853 C. BRONTË Villette I. xvi. 304 Had that audience numbered as many personal friends and acquaintance for me, as for him, I know not how it might have been. 1944 ‘N. SHUTE’ Pastoral v. 107 After so many operations it was an acute personal grief to him that he had pranged his Wimpey. 1991 K. JONES Learning not to be First p. xiv, He would not have considered it wrong to conceal material..that he found too personal.

 

3. a. Of, relating to, or belonging to one's person, body, or appearance; bodily; physical.

 

?a1439 LYDGATE tr. Fall of Princes (Bodl.) V. 2359 Andriscus..Was bold to cleyme be title of rihtwisnesse, Shewyng no ground but personel liknesse. c1485 (1456) G. HAY Bk. Knychthede (1914) 38 For..it war mare lyke that the ordour of knychthede suld..accorde to the proprieteis corporales and personalis as spiritualis. 1600 SHAKESPEARE Henry IV, Pt. 2 IV. iii. 8 Our nauie is addrest, our power collected... Only we want a little personal strength. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Evremond Misc. Ess. Pref. sig. A5v, As for Personal Courage, that of Augustus was not pushing. 1716 J. ADDISON Freeholder No. 21 3 A Princess whose personal Charms..were now become the least Part of her Character. 1774 J. BRYANT New Syst. II. 100 Semiramis, a woman of uncommon endowments, and great personal charms. 1816 J. AUSTEN Emma II. i. 15 Mrs Dixon, I understand, has no remarkable degree of personal beauty. 1865 J. LUBBOCK Prehist. Times i. 21 The personal ornaments of the Bronze age consist principally of bracelets,..pins,..and rings. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. p. xxxviii (advt.) His failure to admire the personal charms of our girls. 1998 Independent (Nexis) 4 Nov., Mary is..disillusioned by her sight, which has revealed her personal ugliness to her.

 

From OED online, University of Denver, Penrose Library, accessed 15 December 2007.

 

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