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personal, a. (n.)
A. adj.
1. a. Of, pertaining to, concerning, or affecting the individual person or self (as opposed, variously, to other persons, the general community, etc., or to one's office, rank, or other attributes); individual; private; one's own. Rarely in reference to an animal (quot. 1796).
personal EQUATION, personal IDENTITY: see these words.
1387 TREVISA Higden (Rolls) III. 115 Seruius Tullius..ordeyned first personal tribute [L. censum] to e Romayns. 1565 J. CALFHILL Answ. Treat. Cross vi. 135 Examples be daungerous to be followed..bycause they be sometime but personall. 1601 SHAKES. Jul. C. II. i. 11, I know no personall cause, to spurne at him, But for the generall. 1683 Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 236 Know no reason why they might not give their personal bills to such as would take them as money to pass. 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. a1794 GIBBON Mem. (1796) I. 71 Mr. Allamand, Minister at Bex, was my personal friend. 1796 HUNTER tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 79 Even the instincts of animals appear to be less adapted to their own personal utility, than to that of Man. 1818 CRUISE Digest (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. 1845 M. PATTISON Ess. (1889) I. 18 It required all the personal influence of the king to check the turbulence of his irritated followers. 1853 C. BRONTË Villette I. xv. 304 Had that audience numbered as many personal friends and acquaintance for me, as for him, I know not how it might have been. 1915 T. F. A. SMITH Soul of Germany 54 Opponents are often personal friends, but that makes no difference. 1938 AUDEN & ISHERWOOD On Frontier I. i. 24 The Valerian School..will educate your dear little kiddies in Patriotism and Personal Hygiene. 1970 Guardian 17 Aug. 7/5 Much propaganda about ‘personal hygiene’ is on the wrong track... Why the obsession with stopping fresh perspiration? 1979 D. ATTENBOROUGH Life on Earth xi. 248 The sloth..pays such little attention to its personal hygiene that green algae grow on its coarse hair.
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