Category:Speciality

Spe`ci*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Specialities. Etym: [see special, and Specialty.]

1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. Sir m. Hale.

2. (law)

Defn: 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.