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Personal
PER'SONAL, a. [L. personalis.] Belonging to men or women, not to things; not real.
Every man so termed by way of personal difference only.
1. Relating to an individual; affecting individuals; peculiar or proper to him or her, or to private actions or character.
The words are conditional; if thou doest well; and so personal to Cain.
Character and success depend more on personal effort than on any external advantages.
So we speak of personal pride, personal reflections.
2. Pertaining to the corporal nature; exterior; corporal; as personal charms or accomplishments.
3. Present in person; not acting by representative; as a personal interview.
The immediate and personal speaking of God almighty to Abraham, Job and Moses.
Personal estate, in law, movables; chattels; things belonging to the person; as money, jewels, furniture, etc. as distinguished from real estate in land and houses.
Personal action, in 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; an action founded on contract or on tort or wrong; as an action on a debt or promise, or an action for a trespass, assault or defamatory words; opposed to real actions, or such as concern real property.
Personal identity, in metaphysics, sameness of being, of which consciousness is the evidence.
Personal verb, in grammar, a verb conjugated in the three persons; thus called in distinction from an impersonal verb, which has the third person only.
PER'SONAL, n. A movable. [Not in use.]
personal appears in definitions for these words:
Acquainted Acquirement Action Adhere Affront Alcavala Appeal Appearance Assets Atonement Autopsy Baron Belief Believe Believer Believing Benefit Bill Boastful Boasting Bottomry Carriage Chancery Characterize Chattel Chief Cognition Common Concurrent Conduct Consequent Convert Credence Deodand Derange Diffidence Disinterest Disinterested Disinterestedness Distrain Distress Divine Duress Effect Egoity Estate Experimental Faculty Fee Filacer Foe Freedom Friendship From Goods Heir-loom Hereditament Himself Hire Hypostatic Identity Impersonal Impersonality Inventory It Lampoon Lampooner Lampooning Loom Magnanimity Malevolence Malice Manumit Manumitting Marshal Need Obligate Personal Personality Personally Pique Plea Pledge Politic Portliness Possessor Postliminium Praise Precarious Prescription Presence Private Privilege Process Pronoun Proof Punish Real Realize Reconnoitered Reconnoitering Regal Reserve Revenue Right Robbery Satire Scutage Self Service Shall She Singly Spectator Steal Sublapsary Suit Team-work Territorial Thief Thou Tithe Title Transfer Transfiguration Tribute Usage Valiantly Valor Vanity Warranty Witness
Acquainted Acquirement Action Adhere Affront Alcavala Appeal Appearance Assets Atonement Autopsy Baron Belief Believe Believer Believing Benefit Bill Boastful Boasting Bottomry Carriage Chancery Characterize Chattel Chief Cognition Common Concurrent Conduct Consequent Convert Credence Deodand Derange Diffidence Disinterest Disinterested Disinterestedness Distrain Distress Divine Duress Effect Egoity Estate Experimental Faculty Fee Filacer Foe Freedom Friendship From Goods Heir-loom Hereditament Himself Hire Hypostatic Identity Impersonal Impersonality Inventory It Lampoon Lampooner Lampooning Loom Magnanimity Malevolence Malice Manumit Manumitting Marshal Need Obligate Personal Personality Personally Pique Plea Pledge Politic Portliness Possessor Postliminium Praise Precarious Prescription Presence Private Privilege Process Pronoun Proof Punish Real Realize Reconnoitered Reconnoitering Regal Reserve Revenue Right Robbery Satire Scutage Self Service Shall She Singly Spectator Steal Sublapsary Suit Team-work Territorial Thief Thou Tithe Title Transfer Transfiguration Tribute Usage Valiantly Valor Vanity Warranty Witness
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