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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Personal \Per"son*al\, a. [L. personalis: cf. F. personnel.]
   1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.

            Every man so termed by way of personal difference.
                                                  --Hooker.

   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.

            The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, --
            and so personal to Cain.              --Locke.

   3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance;
      corporeal; as, personal charms. --Addison.

   4. Done in person; without the intervention of another.
      ``Personal communication.'' --Fabyan.

            The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White.

   5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct,
      motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive
      manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.

   6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.

   {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 {property} (Law), movables; chattels; --
      opposed to real estate or 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.

I \I\ ([imac]).
   1. I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its
      form from the Ph[oe]nician, through the Latin and the
      Greek. The Ph[oe]nician letter was probably of Egyptian
      origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of
      the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is
      most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent,
      beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS.
      [thorn]ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon. In English I
      has two principal vowel sounds: the long sound, as in
      p[=i]ne, [=i]ce; and the short sound, as in p[i^]n. It has
      also three other sounds: (a) That of e in term, as in
      thirst. (b) That of e in mete (in words of foreign
      origin), as in machine, pique, regime. (c) That of
      consonant y (in many words in which it precedes another
      vowel), as in bunion, million, filial, Christian, etc. It
      enters into several digraphs, as in fail, field, seize,
      feign. friend; and with o often forms a proper diphtong,
      as in oil, join, coin. See Guide to Pronunciation,
      [sect][sect] 98-106.

   Note: The dot which we place over the small or lower case i
         dates only from the 14th century. The sounds of I and J
         were originally represented by the same character, and
         even after the introduction of the form J into English
         dictionaries, words containing these letters were, till
         a comparatively recent time, classed together.

   2. In our old authors, I was often used for ay (or aye), yes,
      which is pronounced nearly like it.

   3. As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc.

I \I\ ([imac]), pron. [poss. {My} (m[imac]) or {Mine}
   (m[imac]n); object. {Me} (m[=e]). pl. nom. {We} (w[=e]);
   poss. {Our} (our) or {Ours} (ourz); object. {Us} ([u^]s).]
   [OE. i, ich, ic, AS. ic; akin to OS. & D. ik, OHG. ih, G.
   ich, Icel. ek, Dan. jeg, Sw. jag, Goth. ik, OSlav. az', Russ.
   ia, W. i, L. ego, Gr. 'egw`, 'egw`n, Skr. aham. [root]179.
   Cf. {Egoism}.]
   The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the
   word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.

Source : WordNet®

I
     n 1: a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used
          especially in medicine and photography and in dyes;
          occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities
          (as in sea water or rocks) [syn: {iodine}, {iodin}, {atomic
          number 53}]
     2: the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this
        number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to
        go with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: {one}, {1}, {ace},
         {single}, {unity}]
     3: the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet
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