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Speciality

Speciality (speciality)
n.(?)
Spe`ci*al"i*ty
; pl. Specialities (#). [See Special, and Specialty.]
  1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.
    Sir M. Hale.
  2. See Specialty, 3.
  3. The special or peculiar mark or characteristic of a person or thing; that for which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty.

    On these two general heads all other specialities are depedent. Hooker.

    Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his speciality. Ld. Lytton.

    We 'll say, instead, the inconsequent creature man, -
    For that'a his speciality.
    Mrs. Browning.

    Think of this, sir, . . . remote from the impulses of passion, and apart from the specialities -- if I may use that strong remark -- of prejudice. Dickens.

  4. An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.













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