1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer.
2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.] To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. Holinshed.
3. (Logic)
Defn: Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts.
4. (Law)
Defn: Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
5. (Gram.)
Defn: Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; — opposed to dual and Ant: plural.
6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. Denham.
7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.