peculiar

adjective

Not ordinary or usual; odd or strange: synonym: strange.

adjective

Belonging distinctively or primarily to one person, group, or kind; special or unique.

noun

A privilege or property that is exclusively one’s own.

noun

A church or parish under the jurisdiction of a diocese different from that in which it lies.

noun

In Oxford, a nickname for an Evangelical.

One’s own; pertaining to one, not to many; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; with to, belonging specially or particularly.

… Particular; distinct; individual.

Special; particular; select.

Singular; unusual; uncommon; odd: as, the man has something peculiar in his manner.

A religious denomination found in Essex, Sussex, Surrey, and principally in Kent, England, which believes that one may immediately cease from sin and become perfect in moral life and in spiritual perception. They therefore have no preachers, creeds, ordinances, or church organization. They also profess to rely wholly upon prayer for the cure of disease. Also called Plumstead Peculiars, from the place in which the sect originated. Synonyms Particular, etc. See special.