And God forbid that all a company
Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer.

To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. Holinshed.

The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts.

So singular a sadness
Must have a cause as strange as the effect. Denham.

His zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash. Milton.

To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. Tillotson.

These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. Addison.

Singular point in a curve (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. -- Singular proposition (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. Whately. -- Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. -- Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual.

Syn. -- Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic.