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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Personal \Per"son*al\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*al), a. [L. personalis: cf.
     F. personnel.]
     1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
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              Every man so termed by way of personal difference.


                                                    --Hooker.
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     2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or
        affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals;
        peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or
        general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
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              The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, --
              and so personal to Cain.              --Locke.
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     3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance;
        corporeal; as, personal charms. --Addison.
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     4. Done in person; without the intervention of another.
        "Personal communication." --Fabyan.
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              The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White.
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     5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct,
        motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive
        manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
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     6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.
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     {Personal action} (Law), a suit or action by which a man
        claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it;
        or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury
        to his person or property, or the specific recovery of
        goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action.
  
     {Personal equation}. (Astron.) See under {Equation}.
  
     {Personal estate} or {Personal property} (Law), movables;
        chattels; -- opposed to {real estate} or {real property}.
        It usually consists of things temporary and movable,
        including all subjects of property not of a freehold
        nature.
  
     {Personal identity} (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous
        unity of the individual person, which is attested by
        consciousness.
  
     {Personal pronoun} (Gram.), one of the pronouns {I}, {thou},
        {he}, {she}, {it}, and their plurals.
  
     {Personal representatives} (Law), the executors or
        administrators of a person deceased.
  
     {Personal rights}, rights appertaining to the person; as, the
        rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and
        private property.
  
     {Personal tithes}. See under {Tithe}.
  
     {Personal verb} (Gram.), a verb which is modified or
        inflected to correspond with the three persons.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  thou \thou\ ([th]ou), pron. [Sing.: nom. {Thou}; poss. {Thy}
     ([th][imac]) or {Thine} ([th][imac]n); obj. {Thee}
     ([th][=e]). Pl.: nom. {You} (y[=oo]); poss. {Your} (y[=oo]r)
     or {Yours} (y[=oo]rz); obj. {You}.] [OE. thou, [thorn]u, AS.
     [eth][=u], [eth]u; akin to OS. & OFries. thu, G., Dan. & Sw.
     du, Icel. [thorn][=u], Goth. [thorn]u, Russ. tui, Ir. & Gael.
     tu, W. ti, L. tu, Gr. sy`, Dor. ty`, Skr. tvam. [root]185.
     Cf. {Thee}, {Thine}, {Te Deum}.]
     The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting
     the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in
     addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.
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           Art thou he that should come?            --Matt. xi. 3.
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     Note: "In Old English, generally, thou is the language of a
           lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and
           expresses also companionship, love, permission,
           defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the language
           of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further
           expresses honor, submission, or entreaty." --Skeat.
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     Note: Thou is now sometimes used by the Friends, or Quakers,
           in familiar discourse, though most of them corruptly
           say thee instead of thou.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thou \Thou\, v. t.
     To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with
     insolent familiarity or contempt.
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           If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss.
                                                    --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thou \Thou\, v. i.
     To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner
     of the Friends. [R.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thou
       n : the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn:
           {thousand}, {one thousand}, {1000}, {M}, {K}, {chiliad},
           {G}, {grand}, {yard}]

















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