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peculiar (adj.)

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld

Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep,

Shot forth peculiar graces.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 13.

  Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Charles Phillips (1789-1859): The Character of Napoleon.