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Webster 1913 Edition
Proprietary
Pro-pri′e-ta-ry
,Noun.
pl.
Proprietaries
(#)
. 1.
A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
Fuller.
2.
A body proprietors, taken collectively.
3.
(Eccl.)
A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
Pro-pri′e-ta-ry
,Adj.
[L.
proprietarius
.] Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned;
as,
. proprietary
medicineProprietary articles
, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.
U. S. Statutes.
Webster 1828 Edition
Proprietary
PROPRI'ETARY
, n.1.
A proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right. The grantees of Pennsylvania and Maryland and their heirs were called the proprietaries of those provinces.2.
In monasteries, such monks were called proprietaries, as had reserved goods and effects to themselves, notwithstanding their renunciation of all at the time of their profession.PROPRI'ETARY
,Adj.