Category:Proprietary

Pro*pri"e*ta*ry, n.; pl. Proprietaries. Etym: [l. proprietarius: cf. F. propriétaire. See propriety, and cf. Proprietor.]

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.)

Defn: a monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, Notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

Proprietary Pro*pri"e*ta*ry, a. Etym: [l. proprietarius.]

Defn: belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as Property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. Proprietary articles, Manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive Right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.